- 2 drivers/cars per team.
- ~2 hour race on a weekend every ~2 weeks per season.
They don’t need to solve every problem and the solutions just need to work well during the race (at least for the pit crew).The hospital needs to do this for hundreds of patients every day. They need solutions that can scale (cost less per person). This was about one specific problem (handover) but different patients could bring with them different complications and add new constraints.
Still very cool though. Glad they got some actionable insights.
They would do better to look at the Michelin starred kitchens starting with leaning to keep their work spaces organized and clean no matter how fast they are moving. Here is a good example of an engineered kitchen. "Oui" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klfxQuXT66s
Great Ormond Street Hospital in London improved patient safety during cardiac surgery handoffs by benchmarking against Ferrari’s Formula One pit crew. Two exhausted surgeons watching F1 racing noticed the similarity between pit stops and their ICU transfers. After visiting Ferrari and studying their processes, the hospital implemented a new protocol with clear roles, choreographed movements, separation of equipment and information transfer, and designated leadership. This reduced combined equipment/information errors from 30% to 10%, though some F1 practices (multiple rehearsals, specialized equipment) weren’t transferable due to cost and complexity constraints.
That said I imagine what Jonathan Wheatley would be able to achieve in a task similar to this since he had the Red Bull team maintain a consistent sub-2 second pit stop at Red Bull and he was able to significantly quicken the Sauber one this year.
dralley•2h ago
linhns•52m ago