Tag: Healthcare
Great Op-Ed from Paul O’Neill on REALLY Improving Healthcare
Op-Ed Contributor - Health Care's Infectious Losses - NYTimes.com
FINALLY, a major contribution to the discussion about how we need to improve the quality of...
How Does Your Team React to a New Person?
I 've mentioned here, I think, that I was in The Netherlands earlier in June for almost a week. I was invited to speak...
A Breakthrough in Training — Call it "Near-TWI"
I'm very pleased to present a guest post from Arizona about the successful use of Lean concepts and, more specifically, the "Training Within Industry"...
LeanBlog Video Podcast #5 – Dr. Sami Bahri, D.D.S.
This is an interview with Dr. Sami Bahri, D.D.S., a dentist from Jacksonville, Florida. He is a pioneer in using Lean methods in the...
Virginia Mason’s CEO on Health Reform
Dr. Gary Kaplan, the CEO of Virginia Mason Medical Center is now part of an effort called "Health CEOS for Health Reform". He posted...
More Online Criticism of Lean Healthcare Regarding Park Nicollet and How...
Park Nicollet CEO to retire
In the news story about CEO David Wessner's retirement, one of the listed accomplishments is their use of Lean methods:
Wessner,...
Lean at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
Tamra Kaplan Named COO of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center - Yahoo! FinanceThere aren't too many details in this story, but Lean *has* led...
Right Words, Right Time @ the Hospital
Lean Leap to Health Care #11 (click for Part #10)
by Scott McDuffee
"Have a nice day."
When my daughters were younger, they would cheerfully wave at...
It Might Be Bad Design If Instructions Are Required…
... 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
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...
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?
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...
