Tag: Healthcare
Podcast #104 – Dr. Peter Patterson (@IDrPete), Lean in Histopathology
Podcast #104 is a discussion with Dr. Peter Patterson (@IDrPete), a friend of mine and the Lean Blog the past few years. He wrote...
A Sad Report from an M.D. Friend, Overprocessing Driven by the...
As I blogged about on Friday, I was back at my alma mater, Northwestern, for a football game this weekend-- well, actually, I was...
Hoarders and Stashers? Ask Why…
Short post today, but a simple message, I think. One of the best lessons I've learned about Lean management is about the need to...
Don’t Let Benchmarking Replace Your Own Process Engineering
Through the @LEIhealthcare twitter account, one source of autotweets are the new threads started in the Lean Enterprise Institute forums.
One new thread was started...
Tampa Bay Business Journal Features Lean at Moffitt Cancer Center
The full article requires a subscription, but John Toussaint and I were each quoted in this article from last Friday: "Toyota techniques drive profit,...
Interview with Masaaki Imai – Ohno and Respect for People
The Kaizen Institute website has posted an excellent text Q&A with Masaaki Imai, who you might recognize as the author of the relatively early...
Let’s Sign Documents Promising Not to Make Errors?
You might remember me blogging about the Indianapolis incident where three babies died after being mistakenly given an adult dose of heparin back in...
Why Nurses Should Reject “LAME” and Demand Lean
There's a long-standing argument that I've been dragged into with a group that calls itself "new systems thinkers." They loudly criticize Lean as being...
$500k in Stimulus Money for Lean Healthcare Training – Then What?
This headline jumped out at me: "Local hospital receives $500,000 to train workers."
What also jumped out at me, in the article, is that the...
A Brief Video Look into Lean at VIBCO
I may have shared this video before, but it's worth taking a quick video peek into one of my favorite companies - VIBCO. When...
Collected Quality and Patient Safety Improvement Statistics – #Lean Healthcare
I'm going to use this blog post / page to collect published statistics about the impact the Lean management philosophy has had on healthcare...
Avoid Charting Performance Measures in Confusing or Misleading Ways
Last month, I wrote a post titled "Consulting Case Studies Need Statistical Validity" where I discussed the need to show more than simple "before...
