Tag: Healthcare

Healthcare Improvement Through Lean, Leadership, and Learning

Healthcare improvement isn’t about working harder—it’s about better systems, better leadership, and a culture that supports learning and speaking up. This archive brings together blog posts, podcasts, and reflections on Lean healthcare, patient safety, quality improvement, leadership, and continuous improvement. Many of these posts draw on real hospital experiences and lessons from Deming, Toyota, and frontline healthcare teams, with a consistent emphasis on respect for people and learning from mistakes.

Q&A With the Lean Dentist, Part 1

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Thanks again to Dr. Sami Bahri for hosting me last week. You can read Part 1 and Part 2 of my visit report, stay...

Are Errors Inevitable??

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Huge Price Paid for Stupid, Careless Medical Error | TortdeformLots of discussion of the sad case of the mixed up laboratory specimens and Darrie...

Clearing out my "WIP"

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It's time for another segment of "cleaning out the backlog," those articles I meant to blog about, but didn't get to. These are...

Hospital Laboratory Mixups Will Happen Again, Unless…

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'I don't want this to happen to anyone else' This will happen again, unless the process is fixed. Lean can help. Please read on... I heard...

Hospitals Learning from Hospitals

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Oshkosh Northwestern - Systems turn to ThedaCareThere's a great sense of community and sharing in the hospital space -- something the manufacturing world can...

Waste in Philly Pharmacies

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Phila. health agency in disarray | Philadelphia Inquirer | 09/26/2007I saw this in the news as I was leaving Philly earlier this week. ...

Looking for Muda in Hospitals

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Institute for Healthcare Improvement ArticleThis article from the IHI talks about the need to find "muda" (waste) in hospitals. They say:"In the health...

Dare to Wear this Button?

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I've written before about the "Ask Me" campaign that runs in many hospitals, usually in context of "ask me if I've washed my hands."...

From Autos to Healthcare

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In Shift, Auto Workers Flee to Health-Care Jobs - WSJ.com:This story caught my ear, first, when I heard it on the Wall Street Journal...

Relying on Memory Leads to Errors

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Patient Safety Blog - Telling Our StoriesHere is an unfortunate story about a surgeon operating on the wrong side of an 86 year-old man,...

We Must Follow Standardized Work, Right?

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The Informed Patient - WSJ.comHere's an article ($$) about hospitals working to prevent bedsores or "pressure ulcers" as they are called. I didn't...

Another Lean Hospital Tale

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Medical treatment takes 'lean' tackHere's a great Lean healthcare overview, a news story that appeared in the Chicago Tribune last month about a hospital...
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