Turkey in Lean Healthcare: Examples and a Vision for the Future

Authors

Özge Uysal Şahin (ed)
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi / Türkiye
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1422-4123
Ali Kaplan (ed)
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University / Türkiye
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6019-6178

Keywords:

Yalın Sağlık, Türkiye, Gelecek Vizyonu

Synopsis

While Turkey’s healthcare transformation over the past two decades has yielded significant gains in terms of access and service volume, it has also created new areas of vulnerability, such as cost pressures, increasing waste, and system complexity. By combining the theoretical legacy of lean thinking with the structural characteristics of Turkey’s healthcare system, this book offers a national-scale framework for thought and action toward “lean healthcare.” Spanning sections from theoretical approaches to maturity models, from a public health perspective to the experience of urban hospitals, and from budgeting processes to digital integration and artificial intelligence applications, the book offers a comprehensive discussion space inviting a redesign of the healthcare system along the value–waste axis.
Structured around four main axes, the framework first establishes a theoretical and systemic foundation for lean healthcare, then addresses clinical and managerial process design, discusses the transformation requirements in the human–culture–leadership dimensions, and finally examines the opportunities and risks of digital health and artificial intelligence integration. Contributions prepared by academics from various disciplines and practitioners with extensive field experience go beyond isolated applications of lean projects, proposing a vision for lean healthcare centered on national policy, organizational governance, and sustainable efficiency.

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Published

May 31, 2026

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