Tag: Healthcare

RFID tracks hospital's devices Dallas Morning News News for Dallas, Texas Business This article was in the Dallas paper a week ago. It talks about...

VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System, Toyota Production System --> Dead Link Here is a nice succinct definition of the Veteran's Affairs hospital production system in Pittsburgh....

'Lean Production' May Also be a Lean Toward InjuriesPeople getting hurt would be a good indicator of Lean As Misguidedly Executed. The above...

Nursing Spectrum- Career Fitness OnlineHere is a nice case study about the application of Lean, written by a nurse. Note for the IBM-er's,...

Study: Hospital Goals Sometimes Compromise SafetyWith Lean, we have realized that improving quality does not run counter to decreasing costs. They go together....

Toyota TalentUpdate 5/6/07: The book is now shipping from AmazonI had the pleasure of reading a pre-publication version of this new book from...

The Cincinnati Post - St. E's plan for ER is uniqueThanks to blog reader Karthik for sending this my way. I've read the...

Got this story during an email exchange, used with express permission:-----------------------------I saw my doctor yesterday and told him I was doing a lean publication,...

Episode #23 of the LeanBlog Podcast features a panel of Lean leaders from the Group Health Cooperative, a consumer-governed, nonprofit health care system that...

I heard a great comment on Monday from a hospital President.He said, quite passionately, I might be paraphrasing slightly:"We don't have a shortage of...

Another great thought from David Mann this week was highlighting how a Lean culture will "embrace it's misses" rather than try to cover them...

I don't know the source on the data, but I heard a hospital President today talking about his hospital's Lean journey. He said:"Manufacturing...