Brazilian Journal of Operatons & Producton Management 13 (2016), pp 406-420 STUDY ON TECHNIQUES AND TOOLS USED IN LEAN HEALTHCARE IMPLEMENTATION: A LITERATURE REVIEW Andreia Macedo Gomes a ; Pedro Senna a ; Aluisio Monteiro a ; Denis Pinha b a Celso Suckow da Fonseca Federal Center for Technological Educaton (CEFET) - Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil b West Virginia University (WVU) - Morgantown, WV, EUA ABEPRO DOI: 10.14488/BJOPM.2016.v13.n4.a1 Lately, Lean philosophy is increasingly gaining importance due to a compettve environment, which creates the need of reducing costs. Lean practces and tools have been applied to manufacturing, services, supply chains, startups and the next fronter is Healthcare. Most of lean techniques can be easily brought to Healthcare organizatons. Therefore, this paper aims to summarize Lean practces and tools which are already being applied to Healthcare organizatons. As its main results, we can highlight main authors, papers and number of publicatons per year and so, this paper can be used as a guideline for Lean implementatons in Healthcare organizatons. Keywords: Lean tools; Lean Healthcare; Literature review. ABSTRACT