Tag: Healthcare
New Book: “Laugh, Sing, and Eat Like a Pig”
One of the people I've been fortunate to meet in the last year is Dave deBronkart, aka "e-Patient Dave." I saw e-PD present at...
A First-Person Lean Leadership Story from John Toussaint, MD
I've had the pleasure to work with Dr. John Toussaint, CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, over the past year. John's...
Do You Know More Than a Hospital CEO About…
If you're a regular reader of my Lean Blog, you might know more about preventing Hospital Acquired Infections than many healthcare CEOs do, says...
Lean Leads to Green, Which Supports Lean
Forgive me if some Texas pride comes through in this post, as well as some former-client pride. The clinical laboratory team at Children's Medical...
Lean Healthcare Featured in Sunday’s New York Times Business Page
Today's edition of The New York Times has an outstanding article about Lean Healthcare and what Seattle Children's Hospital calls C.P.I. or Continuous Performance...
Two Extreme Sides to Every Story in Politics *and* Lean??
This is going to seem like a political rant, but I promise this is mainly a post about Lean and healthcare, or at least...
Happy Birthday Frank Gilbreth; Reducing Waste in Hospitals… Green is Lean
Today, July 7, is the birthday of Frank Gilbreth, born this day in 1868. While some of his methods arguably ranked low on the...
Jim Womack: “Tipping Point” for Lean Healthcare?
I'm still catching up on things I wanted to blog about related to our Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit that we held June 9 and...
LeanBlog Podcast #93 – Jim Hearn on Lean to Improve Patient...
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Episode #93 is a discussion with Jim Hearn, the Head of Lean and Six Sigma at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. This discussion...
Guest Post: Lean Lessons from the Non Profit World
Mark's note: I consider myself very fortunate to have met Patrick Anderson during my journeys in the Lean world. Patrick is the executive director...
Guest Post: Learning to See… and Feel
Mark's note: Today's guest blog post comes from a good friend of this blog and long-time reader and commenter Brian Buck. Brian blogs at...
Guest Post: Operations-based Healthcare Design
Mark's note: Today's guest post is by Alica Simmer, a Senior Healthcare Consultant with KHC. I'm happy to have her as a guest blogger...