Tag: Healthcare

Using Lean Simulations to Spur Emergency Room Improvement

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Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Getting Lean in the EDHere is a story that includes examples of Lean improvements at Rockford Health System in Rockford,...

An MD/CEO In Indiana Believes in Lean

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Doctor takes pulse of Lutheran Health | The Journal Gazette:Here's an article about Dr. Mike Schatzlein, Chief executive officer for Lutheran Health Network...

"Rounding" and "Gemba Walks"

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StuderGroup - The Magic of Rounding Here's a good article from Quint Studer about "rounding" -- something Lean folks might refer to as a "Gemba...

"Checklists" Innovator is One of Time’s 100

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Peter Pronovost - The 2008 TIME 100 - TIME It's so nice to see someone like Dr. Peter Pronovost on the "most influential" list, even...

Open Source Public Health Software through Lean Methods

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Collaborative Software InitiativeThe link above is a project that might be interesting to those of you working in "Lean Software"... or those who afraid...

Fire Fighting vs. Root Cause Problem Solving

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Below is some of the text from edition #3 of the newsletter from my upcoming book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee...

"Just In Time Patients??"

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Medical Leave -- Offshore Medicine -- Fast CompanyInteresting read here in the latest issue of Fast Company about a hospital in Thailand and...

Nursing Shortage Easing?

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Slowdown's Side Effect: More Nurses - WSJ.com:Not a Lean article, but a major issue for hospitals is a shortage of nurses. With the economy...

The Power of Asking "Why?"

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reportonbusiness.com: Asking 'why' again and again is harder than you think, but it works It's kind of neat to see a column about the "5...

"Loving Lean" is Way Better Than "Lean and Mean"

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Health Care: Loving Lean -- Seattle Business MonthlyIt's so nice to see a Lean overview article, yet alone Lean healthcare, that doesn't use the...

Paying for Hospital Activity

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B.C. considers radical shift in hospital funding, based on patients treatedThis is something that I just recently learned about the Canadian health system --...

The Shift from Factories to Hospitals

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Factories Fading, Hospitals Step In - WSJIt's inevitable -- as manufacturing jobs decline and our population ages, more people will shift from manufacturing jobs...