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Transforming Healthcare Systems

Join healthcare leaders, clinicians, and changemakers who are using the Theory of Constraints to dramatically and quickly improve their healthcare systems.

June 3, 2025

Are you facing any of these challenges?

Overcrowded departments and overflowing hospitals?
Delayed discharges, long length of stay, and rising overtime?
Burnout, turnover, and frustrated care teams?
Fragmented scheduling, missed appointments, and poor coordination?
Long waits for primary or specialty care?

You’re not alone—and you don’t have to keep struggling. Let's start healing the system, not just the patients. This conference shows you how hospitals, clinics, and care networks are using the Theory of Constraints (TOC) to improve patient flow, increase access, and improve outcomes—with what they already have:

Improve patient flow

Reduce delays across the system with simple changes that unlock capacity.

Do more with existing resources

Increase throughput without hiring more staff or expanding facilities

Lower stress and build resilient systems

Move from daily chaos to coordinated care delivery.

Simplify Scheduling and Reduce Missed Appointments

Get patients in faster, with fewer cancellations and less back-and-forth.

Align Care Teams Without Overload

Improve coordination across clinical and administrative teams—without adding complexity.

Don’t let another day go by managing chaos instead of curing it.

Join us for a practical, one-day event dedicated to helping healthcare teams improve patient access, restore flow, and reduce overload—without requiring more funding or staff.

Why Healthcare Professionals Are Attending – And You Should Too

Deliver Better Care, Faster

Learn how healthcare systems are reducing wait times, shortening length of stay, and improving access—without expanding budgets or burning out teams.

Practical, Proven Tools You Can Use

Gain real-world case studies, tools like buffer management and the five focusing steps, and step- by-step examples from hospitals, clinics, and care networks around the world.

Expand Your Network & Perspective

Connect with global healthcare leaders, clinicians, operations experts, and changemakers who are using TOC to improve care, restore flow, and rehumanize the workplace.

Earn CME Credit While You Learn

This event is jointly accredited and offers up to 20+ hours of CME credit for physicians, nurses, and other healthcare professionals. CME is available with Premium Access.

What You’ll Experience

One-Day Virtual Conference

Focused, practical sessions designed for busy healthcare professionals—from frontline teams to senior leadership.

Real-World Healthcare Case Studies

See how hospitals, clinics, and practices are using TOC to improve patient flow, reduce delays, and manage capacity.

20+ Presentations Across 4 Tracks

Choose sessions most relevant to your role: Operations, Leadership, Technology, or Rapid Results.

Actionable Tools and Methods

Learn TOC tools like buffer management, 5 focusing steps, and strategy & tactics trees—used successfully in healthcare.

Live Q&A with Experts

Get direct insights from physicians, administrators, and consultants who’ve led successful implementations.

Access to Community and Resources

Connect with peers, and gain access to additional case studies, how-to guides, and the TOCICO Healthcare Portal

TOC in Healthcare Delivers Measurable Impact

A systematic review of 42 TOC implementations in healthcare found dramatic improvement achieved quickly and often at little or no additional cost.

The solutions are inherently simple, investments are minimal, and the results are almost instantaneous.


Learn how to bring these kinds of results to your organization.

New to TOC in Healthcare?

Want to see how TOC works in real healthcare settings—before the big day? Great! Checkout these incredible case studies:

  • How one ED reduced ambulance diversion in under 3 months
  • How a public hospital cut wait times for chemotherapy
  • How a specialty clinic increased throughput by 50% with no extra staff
  • And more real-world implementations from across hospitals, clinics, mental health systems, and primary care

After you register, you’ll get instant access!

The Problem and TOC Solution

What’s the Problem ?

The Theory of Constraints (TOC) helps healthcare professionals identify the one core issue that’s limiting performance—whether it’s a bottleneck in patient flow, delays in diagnostics, staff burnout, or a system-level policy that’s slowing care.

Rather than trying to fix everything at once, TOC focuses on improving what matters most—so teams can make meaningful progress without more effort, more people, or more spending.

How Does TOC Help Healthcare?

TOC gives healthcare teams a practical way to:

Increase access to care without increasing cost

Improve patient flow through departments and services

Align scheduling, staffing, and space around your true constraint

Reduce burnout, waste, and daily firefighting

Deliver measurable improvements—quickly and sustainably

A Track for Every Role in Healthcare

Whether you're just discovering TOC or already leading change in healthcare, there’s a session designed for you.
From frontlines to executive roles, every track is built to deliver real-world value—no prior experience required. Explore Five Tracks That Deliver Practical Results.

Emergency Room

Learn how ER teams are using TOC to reduce overcrowding, manage high variability, and improve triage and throughput—even during peak demand.

Surgery & Operating Room

See how hospitals are increasing surgical volume, reducing delays, and optimizing OR schedules using TOC principles and smart planning tools.

Specialty Care

Discover how specialty clinics are applying TOC to improve coordination, shorten patient wait times, and enhance care delivery across disciplines.

Behavioral Health

Explore how TOC is helping behavioral health organizations expand access, stabilize operations, and respond faster to patient needs with limited resources.

Administration

Sessions for operations leaders and administrators focused on aligning teams, managing resources, improving workflows, and delivering better outcomes.

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Meet the Speakers

Meet the experts driving change across healthcare—from frontline physicians to system architects—who believe healthcare can work better for everyone

+Many More to Come

Event Schedule

June 3, 2025

Live broadcast: 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Replay: 9:00 PM - June 4, 3:00 AM

All sessions will be conducted online.

Time zone:EDT (GMT - 4:00) NY, USA

Where TOC in Healthcare Has Been Featured or Applied

Organizations featured in TOCICO case studies, conferences, and publications

Trusted by Healthcare Leaders Around the World

“TOC offers a way to achieve more—better care, better access, better morale—without spending more.”

— Dr. Alex Knight, TOC Healthcare Pioneer

“Within months we eliminated ambulance diversion and reduced inpatient stays below national benchmarks—all during a flu surge. TOC gave us the logic and tools to do it."

— Dr. Christopher Strear

"Patients flowed smoothly through the system. More importantly, the quality of care improved."

— Dr. Gustavo Bacelar

"TOC helped us improve chemotherapy delivery across two departments—with better outcomes, higher satisfaction, and no cost overruns."

— Dr. Vicky Mabin

"We didn’t need to invest in more equipment. We needed a better way to manage what we already had. TOC made that possible."

— Healthcare Operations Manager

"The logic of TOC helped align leadership, clinicians, and admin staff like never before. It gave us a shared focus."

— Hospital Improvement Lead


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One Shared Mission: Better Healthcare Systems Through TOC. Choose the experience that fits.

This Is Your Chance to Unlock

One of Healthcare’s Best-Kept Improvement Strategies

Don’t let chronic delays and burnout become the norm.
Discover how TOC is helping healthcare teams around the world deliver better care—faster, more reliably, and without more cost.

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Explore the Books That Sparked a Movement in TOC for Healthcare
Discover the books that laid the foundation for applying the Theory of Constraints in healthcare. Written by leading experts and featured speakers, these titles offer practical insights and real-world case studies to help improve patient flow, reduce delays, and transform healthcare delivery. Explore them now on the registration site to deepen your conference experience.

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS

CME Sponsor

THE CONFERENCE WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY

This conference is proudly organized by the Theory of Constraints International Certification Organization (TOCICO), global not-for-profit organization. Our conference planning committee consists of experienced healthcare providers and consultants who passionately believe that TOC can transform healthcare systems. For 20+ years the TOCICO has organized global events bringing together practitioners, students and experts in TOC. This conference seeks to make some of that experience available to the wider community.

Contact us for more information at events@tocico.org

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