Tag: Healthcare

WHO Proposes Checklist to Reduce Surgery Errors : NPR A surgical revolution: checklist that could prevent thousands of deaths Thanks to long-time readers Chet and Andrew...

From Modern Healthcare (link no longer available), Tom Peters throws a few verbal bombs at the healthcare industry: Quality gains needn't be costly, Peters tells...

I'm a proud member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and their sub-organization the Society for Health Systems. I try to contribute to the...

Leading article: Infected by political calculationThis isn't a "Lean" story, per se, but it still caught my eye. Hospital-acquired infections are a major problem...

Follow Royal's example on waiting lists, hospitals told - Liverpool Daily Post.co.ukNice story from here in the UK (where I am right now), about...

Episode #46 is a chat with a good friend of the Lean Blog, Dean Bliss, a Lean Improvement Specialist with the Iowa Health System....

Johns Hopkins Gazette | June 9, 2008From the online newsletter of William R. Brody, president of The Johns Hopkins University. He writes: ...

Grand Forks Herald | News in area business (scroll down)From a North Dakota newspaper... see if you can spot the part of the article...

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

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

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

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