Tag: Healthcare

On his blog, John Toussaint shared this letter from ThedaCare CEO Dean Gruner to all employees. Toussaint said the letter is inspired by Paul...

Today's post is a case study submitted by  Abdul N. Mansour,  Director Lean & Process Improvement at  Scottsdale (AZ) Healthcare. The material here and...

Last week, I posted a podcast with Mike George, founder of Strong America Now, an organization that is promoting Lean and Six Sigma methods...

After a week of serious topics and sometimes pointed discussion, let's end with a funny sign... well wait, there's a serious story behind this...

As I've worked with different hospitals and different leaders, I've sometimes wondered if there's been a study on the differences in results between hospitals...

This blog post contains a real job posting,  found online. Let's make this a reader participation challenge. I see maybe three things "wrong" or...

Here's a nice video that popped up on YouTube from the Toronto-area University Health Network system, with healthcare professionals talking about how Lean has...

It's nowhere near as important as yesterday's topic of employee and patient safety, but my last two days of using the new Mac OS...

Listen I have a very special guest for Podcast #124 -  he is Paul O'Neill, the U.S. Treasury Secretary from 2001 to 2002 and former...

One reason I love applying Lean thinking in new arenas as my career progresses is that each shift in industry leads to new challenges...

Back in the manufacturing world, the distinction between "push" and "pull" is often much more obvious than it is in healthcare. Push production occurs...

I was at the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value office a few months ago when Dr. John Toussaint reported that he had gotten a...