Tag: Healthcare

Here's a great article with a number of quotes from William Considine, the CEO of Akron Children's Hospital in Ohio. The article, from the...

There are lots of places online where people can ask questions about Lean, such as the LEI forums and numerous LinkedIn groups. I saw...

One wouldn't expect to find a depiction of a hospital setting with poor "5S" practices on the show Family Guy - of course, depending...

It's nice to see examples of Lean Healthcare success in the news, this time on the front page of the Denver Post -- "Denver...

Hello, readers. How are you? Fantastic. The recent series of Old Spice commercials starring Isaiah Mustafa have been a pop culture hit, especially on YouTube...

Hat tip to Helen Z. for finding this full-page print ad in the New York Times. The full ad appears below in this post,...

First off, there's nothing about "Lean" per se in this linked article from Quality Digest: "New York Pediatric ICU Ward Off Central-Line Infections for...

A blog reader sent me a link to this UK news article -- really, it's a lesson in statistical literacy, so thanks to the...

I was asked a really good question today, a simple question that probably has a complex answer: How many hospitals have gotten discouraged and quit...

I'm very interested in the interface between healthcare architecture, space design, and processes. I've seen so many cases where poor design (often done without...

I've participated in the last two Society for Health Systems conferences, as a presenter, and I'm looking forward to attending the 2011 event in...

Lean thinkers and TPS advocates sometimes get a bad rap as being Luddites. That's not true, I'd say it's more that Lean thinkers have...