Tag: Healthcare

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...

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...

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

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

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....

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...

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

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...

By Dean Bliss:One of the big challenges we have as Lean people is to get beyond presentations, classes, and posters, and get to the...

Lean Leap to Health Care #8 (click for Part #7) by Scott McDuffee "When a baby is born, a pleasant chime can be heard throughout the...

Highlights from the History of Industrial Engineering and Healthcare: Part 1Wanted to share a link to an article I wrote recently for the Society...

I blogged recently about a radio ad from the Detroit Medical Center trumpeting their technology and patient safety efforts. In my further travels, I saw...