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Streamlining Medical Workflows: A Deep Dive

by | Feb 1, 2025 | Specialist

Workflows sounds so boring! Actually they are, unless you’re an engineer or you hate wasting time.

So if you want to work more efficient and effective, you need to understand some basic concepts. First of all, efficiency is amount of resources you’re using as opposed to your budget. Great when you’re doing better than foreseen, unless you worsen your forecast. A trick often seen in huge enterprises failing to deliver.

Effectivity is the actual output over the forecasted output. The same adagio goes here. That’s why the modern world has a fetish with productivity. This is the actual output over the actual resources. It’s what drives economies, your practice or in case of a patiënt, what gets you sick (sooner or later).

Don’t believe us? Check out this article in the Harvard Business Review: https://hbr.org/2007/07/productivity-is-killing-american-enterprise

We’re not opposed to productivity, quite the opposite: it’s in our bones. We detect waste before anyone-else and often have simple tips & tricks from other best practices. Tech is a tool, not a means.

So how, do you get to better productivity without getting sick? Well, we all know the mantra “Work smarter, not harder”. In the ’60s, a smart engineer at Toyota, Japan invented what many Westerners know as LEAN.

Another flash word to say there are 7+1 wastes, people generally are at the core of waste and iterative improvements every day and every week makes dreams come true. Or in his case: a smal car manufacturer into a global powerhouse. Still the most valuable car company in the world today.

https://youtu.be/hGJpez7rvc0?si=3IOyaZFFGcgKz-Kk

Niklas Modig, a Swedish prodigy Professor was the first foreigner to work alongside Toyota executives in Japan. Speaking fluent Japanese he was able to truly create a connection and gain their trust and insights.

Why is this important for you? It’s a clip about HealthCare and he explains it plain and simple. Maybe not mind blowing to you, but start thinking what you could improve at work/home using his method. You’ll be blown away!

Flow efficiency

Now that you have seen the clip, let us know what you think of it. Want to know more, reach out! We have 35+ years of joint industry experience in improving automotive, but also HealthCare, software development, banking & insurance, ABInbev, Colruyt, HelloFresh, …

The Future of Healthcare: CuroVia’s Vision

by | Feb 1, 2025 | Patiënt

Imagine, it’s 2035 … You’re sitting in your self-driving car, although public transport will be more likely. You can afford the car, but you no longer want to. A revolution has passed, being rich and privileged is frowned upon.

Does this look bad for you? No! You’re actually happy, because you enjoy life to the fullest. You understand hardships are what makes the highs so enjoyable. You’ve been expecting them, also in your health. But you’re living it to the max.

Dreamy? Sure. Possible? You bet!

We want to create the most valuable company on the planet and we believe this will be a HealthTech company. When you have all the money in the world, all you care about is being healthy.

The doctors and patients of today will have radically changed. In the (not so?) far future, potential patiënts and their doctors will check symptoms based on the best possible knowledge available worldwide (and beyond?), not just locally on some website or the doctor’s memory (or search online).

Showing the need to physically meet, the appointment will be made through a virtual assistant, giving away all your symptoms and potentially your health tracker (Garmin/…) stats to support the preliminary pathology. The patient will have to confirm their appointment based on their needed reminderschedule that has effect, because doctors will fine no-shows big-time.

A (virtual) doctor might request you to go to your local HealthPod, where a robot can draw your blood and other samples to go to the lab or labtest it immediately. Giving the doctor a focus on what really counts, the patient interaction and verification of other possibly missed symptoms.

Meeting physically, the conversation will be followed by a multimodal model (speech, but also video) to track the conversation, symptoms, (likelihood of the information?), … and match it with:

 

    • Earlier pathologies to capture trends

    • The info the MD got from the patient’s virtual assistant.

    • The info from the HealthPod

    • The best available knowledge worldwide about this pathology

to provide the best health care possible (with mentioning the sources). This might result in merely advice or a prescription that’s automatically written when the MD explains the prescription to the patient. Both will be stored by the patient’s virtual assistant and the patient’s file for future retrieval, the pharmacy, a specialist, …

In case it’s just a regular check-up for the insurance, the doctor will talk with the patient to hear what it’s about, check and speak out/write down the symptoms and the doctor’s virtual assistant will fill in the paperwork.

The future is here!

Is this the future? No, that’s what’s already happening today. Want to know what’s coming? Reach out!