Tag: Healthcare

What top-performing EDs do - Hospitals & Health Networks I was really, Really, REALLY puzzled by the first line in this article, that read: "Lean, Six...

Our returning guest is John S. Toussaint, MD, the CEO emeritus of ThedaCare, and CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value. In the...

Ill. hospital execs find savings in Lean methodologies - Modern HealthcareIt's nice to see Modern Healthcare is doing some podcasts, or at least I...

As I had alluded to the other day, there was a huge investigative piece that ran across the country Sunday in the Hearst Newspapers....

In this post, Mark compiles a range of eye-opening statistics about healthcare quality, patient safety, and medical errors. Acting as a repository of data,...

LeanBlog Podcast Episode #71 is part two of a conversation with Patrick Anderson, the Executive Director of Chugachmiut, the Tribal consortium created to promote...

Hearst Press Release August 09, 2009This will be developing over the next few days. The Hearst newspaper chain has done a huge expose of...

Health care's infectious loss - Video - Business News Short post for today - but an important one. Here's a great video from CNN last...

In my Podcasts, I normally let me guests do most of the talking. But I was invited by Joe Dager, of the Business901 Podcasts,...

University of Michigan looks to lean principles for system-wide improvements - MLive.comHere is some positive news coming out of my home state of Michigan......

2008 Annual Report: Reducing Waste I had a great visit with Group Health in Seattle on Monday, they are doing some great work with Lean...

As we study the processes we use to do our work, we see opportunities that we may not have even considered before we learned...