Ryan McCormack
Ryan is an operational excellence professional with over 18 years experience practicing continuous improvement in healthcare, insurance, food manufacturing, and aerospace. He is an avid student of the application of Lean principles in work and life to create measurably better value.
Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 9, 2018
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
The benefits of Electronic healthcare records are a polarizing topic with healthcare providers. Standardization and electronic workflows have their...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 26, 2018
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patient
A lot can be done to optimize flow in hospitals without investing in additional staff and infrastructure by using an...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 12, 2018
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patient
CMAJ summarizes how to improve the quality of healthcare in Canada. Nothing new here, which begs the question - what...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 28, 2018
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patient
Creating value for patients isn't a "project". Lean thinking isn't a program you "implement" in a hospital over a...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: September 14, 2018
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patient
The legendary quality leader W. Edwards Deming is widely known for his thoughts on statistics and systems. However, Deming...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 31, 2018
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patient
Canadian healthcare is where "pilot projects come to die". There is a lack of a culture of innovation in Canadian...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 17, 2018
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patient
Canadian healthcare is still mired in a system of outdated technology (including reliance on faxing and pagers) in a...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: August 3, 2018
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