Tag: Doctor

NPR Highlights Dr. Gawande’s Checklist Manifesto for Improved Patient Safety

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Thanks to my friend Amber for telling me about Dr. Atul Gawande's interview on NPR's Morning Edition yesterday. Regular readers of the blog will...

Lean Healthcare in Jacksonville

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NE Fla. health care providers cut waste - Jacksonville Business Journal:Here's a nice upbeat article about some lean healthcare progress in Jacksonville, including our...

Bad Behavior Kills – in Hospitals?

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amednews: Disruptive behavior by doctors, nurses persists a year after crackdown :: Nov. 16, 2009 ... American Medical News One of the two pillars of...

Why it Took 15 Years for Common Sense to be Accepted...

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Frank and Lillian Gilbreth: scientific management in the operating room I sprung $20 for this healthcare journal article about the Gilbreths, thought I'd share a...

NY Times on Standardization, Deming, and Lean Principles in Healthcare

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If Health Care Is Going to Change, Dr. Brent James's Ideas Will Change It - NYTimes.com About 10 people sent me this article via the...

"McDreamy" Fights the Blame Game on "Grey’s Anatomy"

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Grey's Anatomy : I Saw What I Saw I'm not normally a Grey's Anatomy watcher (yeah, right, some of you might say... but I'm not)....

Lean & Collaborative Care at ThedaCare

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Six Best Practice Elements of ThedaCare's Collaborative Care ModelHere's an article from Becker's Hospital Review about the six best practices of Lean-based Collaborative Care...

LeanBlog Podcast #76 – Dr. David Jaques, Lean in Surgical Services

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Episode #76 is a discussion with Dr. David Jaques, VP of Surgical Services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO. In this podcast, Dr. Jaques...

“No Blame” Doesn’t Mean “No Accountability”

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Wachter's World : Physician Accountability for Violation of Safety Rules: The Time For Excuses Has Passed I think Bob Wachter has it completely right in...

Lean at Windsor’s Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital

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Here is a video from Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital (HDGH) in Windsor, Ontario Canada about their Lean effort, the video is part of their main...

President of Dartmouth College Endorses Lean for Healthcare

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I really enjoyed this PBS interview with with Dr. Jim Yong Kim, formerly of Harvard Medical School and now the new President of Dartmouth...

"Dead by Mistake" Report Hits the News

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As I had alluded to the other day, there was a huge investigative piece that ran across the country Sunday in the Hearst Newspapers....