Product line management. Formalizing clinical product lines as part of patient focused restructuring.

Patient Focused Care is entirely consistent with clinical Product Line Management. In fact, as with Patient Focused Care and CQI/TQM, these two initiatives are better together than apart. To take advantage of this opportunity, you may have to modify your existing mechanism for Product Line Management. But the added benefits of more successful Product Line Management will make any modifications a temporary distraction. Down goes the perceived hurdle.