Tag: Emergency

You might remember my post from June about an emergency physician who wrote a journal article bashing "Lean" -- but what he described didn't...

Now, there’s a story written by an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Brad Cotton, that appears in a publication called “Emergency Medicine News” — FIRST PERSON: ‘We Fired Our Hospital’...

There's been a back-and-forth of views about the state of pediatric emergency medicine recently in the Wall Street Journal. Let me start first, actually, with...

Last Wednesday and Thursday, I collaborated with Joe Swartz and a countless number of his colleagues to host 24 visitors from different health systems (and...

Hospital billboards and health system advertising can be a curious thing. One ad that I see driving between San Antonio and Austin is one...

I was recently interviewed by one of the reporters who put together this web article in Canada: "From the factory floor to the emergency department:...

Below is an infographic shared by the MHA program at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. There's some interesting data there......

tl;dr: In this post, Mark discusses the SQDCM framework, which stands for Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and Morale. He examines how focusing on these...

When I started blogging here in 2005, I was still about six months away from my transition from "lean manufacturing" to "lean healthcare." It...

PBS has aired a documentary about an Emergency Department in East Oakland, CA.  You can visit the website for the film  and you can also...

Thanks to the organizing sponsor Protegra and other sponsors, including my friends at LeanKit, for having me give a keynote talk about the Software...

You might recall that I interviewed Dr. Joe Guarisco for episode #160 of my podcast series, talking about operations improvement and emergency department patient...