Tag: Healthcare

I had an opportunity to coach somebody, remotely, the other day on the Lean problem-solving process called "the 5 Whys." The person presented a situation...

Books - One Injury, 10 Countries - A Journey in Health Care - Review - NYTimes.comI think this book,The Healing of America: A Global...

Our friends at ThedaCare are running an experiment this week. One of their Rapid Improvement Event team members is going to send a few...

Healthcare - "Writing The New Playbook For U.S. Health Care: Lessons From Wisconsin" John Toussaint just had a piece published in the influential peer-reviewed journal...

Hospital CEOs manage staff time, inventory to cut costs - USATODAY.com It's nice to see a major publication covering Lean and, especially, Lean in healthcare....

You might remember a 2008 blog piece about early Lean efforts in New Zealand hospital (Dunedin hospital), where the primary aim was reducing...

I recently invited questions for Michael Balle, the author of the Shingo Prize winning book The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround. He...

Below is a guest post from fellow author and Lean Healthcare practitioner, Naida Grunden.Her book, The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Improving Patient Care...

This is an old story, from May, that I've meant to write about for a while. Peter Orszag, the Director of the Office of...

I'd like to welcome a new blogger to the Lean Healthcare space: Thomas L. Jackson of Rona Consulting and author of these books: Hoshin Kanri...

Sunday, I read this New York Times article about Apple's "App Store" for the iPhone and iPod Touch (I've been a pretty happy iPhone...

Here are all of the videos, embedded from Fox News. Click here for a page with summaries of each.   As of October 2011, you can...