Tag: Healthcare

It Might Be Bad Design If Instructions Are Required…

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... or if it's too easy to make mistakes. One of my favorite books of all time is Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday Things....

Reminders: Upcoming Lean Healthcare Events

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A reminder about two upcoming events for the Lean Healthcare community:MIT Professional Education - Short Programs: MIT will be holding three short courses on...

Medical Mistake in In-Vitro Fertilization: What’s More Effective, Blaming Process or...

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IVF baby given to wrong woman - as couple's last embryo was aborted | Mail Online This was front-page news in one of the UK...

Cost Crisis for the NHS? Quality Improvement Can Help?

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Britain's health service "facing funding crisis" | Reuters:Watching the BBC morning news the other day, I took an interest in the discussion of the...

Lean Leap to Healthcare: Hospital Sabbatical

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Lean Leap to Health Care #10 (click for Part #9) by Scott McDuffee In my first Leap to Health Care blog, I mentioned using a two-pronged...

Formal Announcement of LEI/ThedaCare Lean Healthcare Network

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Thought I'd share this here on the blog even though many of you might have gotten an email from Helen Zak at the LEI...

Virginia Mason and Lean Healthcare on the CBS Evening News

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A Carmaker As A Model For A Hospital? - CBS News Virginia Mason Medical Center and their use of Lean and TPS was featured on...

LIFE Magazine August 1980 – Healthcare Costs Were 9% of GDP...

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Yesterday, I shared some old auto industry images and clips from the August 1980 LIFE magazine. More striking to me was an ad from...

First 90 Days as Hospital Lean Director – What To Do?

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Lean Leap to Health Care #9 (Click for Part #8) by Scott McDuffee "I'm not sure if I have ever learned anything with my mouth open....

Pathology Mistakes (Again) on Oprah and in the News

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After watching and blogging about the first half of Oprah's medical errors show that featured the story of Dennis Quaid's kids, I finally got...

My Daily Workaround: Deleting Commercial Emails

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I had an epiphany the other day. It was one of those moments where I was pretty ashamed and was ready to turn in...

Criticism of Lean at Park Nicollet Hospital

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Hard times curtail Park Nicollet's ambition Minnesota's Park Nicollet health system is often held up as one of the leading "lean healthcare" examples in the...