Tag: Healthcare

Episode #116 is a chat with Jim Womack, founder and former Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute, now their Senior Advisor and author of...

I am working on finishing up the revised and updated edition of my first book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction....

One of my projects with LEI and the Healthcare Value Network is a podcast series I am hosting featuring leaders from our various Network...

I really had a great learning experience at last week's LEI Lean Transformation Summit that was held here in Dallas. The event sold out...

Mark's note: I'm happy to have a new guest blogger, Dr. Wiljeana Glover, from MIT, and a fellow member of the Society for Health...

Coming off of an outstanding 2011 Lean Transformation Summit (blog posts to come), John Toussaint, MD, is doing a huge favor for the Dallas-Fort...

As many people do, I had to fill out an online health assessment for the purposes of my family's health insurance. The survey asked...

A few weeks back, I attended the Society for Health Systems (SHS) Conference in Orlando, where I chaired the Patient Flow track. There were...

Thanks to Mike Wall, the host of the "Radio Lean" online program for interviewing me on Lean Healthcare. You can find streaming audio here or...

Regular readers might know that I'm working on a second book project, about "kaizen" (continuous improvement) in healthcare. Sign up to receive more info...

Episode #114 is a conversation with John Kim, of the firm John Kim & Associates. John is a recognized leader in the Design, Development,...

So Monday's blog post was about preventable medical errors - namely errors involving pharmacies giving the wrong meds or wrong doses to patients. That's...