Tag: Healthcare

Listen: LeanBlog Podcast #29 features a very special guest, Dr. Sami Bahri, "The World's First Lean Dentist." If you're thinking, "What can I learn about lean...

'Surgery should be halted' to clear hospital backlog Sub-optimizing decisions are a fairly universal human behavior, regardless of the industry (or continent). Lean teaches us...

I recorded my Podcast interview with Dr. Sami Bahri, "The First Lean Dentist," last night. What a treat it has been to talk...

Fury Over 84 000 pound NHS Trip To Japan (from The Northern Echo)With apologies to the Got Boondoggle? lean blog, this story is about...

By Andrew Castle: Mark's note: Today's guest blogger is a friend of the blog and a consultant who does Lean work for the UK's...

APM Marketplace (Business/Economy radio)As you've read here, I'm trying to help get the word out that we should be not just focusing on access...

In my morning reading yesterday, I was pleasantly surprised to see the phrase "root cause" in two stories I've written about here:Preventable Medical Errors...

I'm very excited to announce that I will be recording a LeanBlog Podcast interview with Dr. Sami Bahri, the "First Lean Dentist," on Tuesday...

Parkland Hospital Deploys Galvanon's MediKiosk(TM) in the ER to Decrease Patient Wait Times It's been discussed here before, how hospitals are just as susceptible as...

Value-Stream Improvement for the Office and Services The Lean Enterprise Institute is giving a free webinar on August 2nd, featuring a hospital that presented...

After watching Michael Moore virtually melt down on CNN a few minutes ago, I had some thoughts...As I wrote about before, there are two...

Better questions, wiser answers - The Washington TimesA "hat tip" to the curious cat for finding this excellent column by Clare Crawford-Mason, the producer...