Tag: Healthcare

medinnovationblog: Systematic Innovation in U.S. Health Care: Toyota's Lean Manufacturing Method and Its Application to Health CareA post here from the "medinnovationblog" site. ...

Nissan News | Nissan's 'shot in the arm' for healthcare sectorIt's not just Toyota working with the Toyota City hospital or GM helping the...

Business Week Article Here's a good story about how some doctors offices are trying to reduce backlogs and appointment delays, by adopting lean and operations...

StuderGroup - Conversations with Quint StuderAnother great discussion from Quint Studer's management blog (I hate to call it a "healthcare blog" because that might...

Fatal Dose: Ohio Girl is Killed By Medical MistakeHere is a sad story of a girl's death due to a hospital pharmacy mistake. ...

Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog: A woman dies after receiving 8 grams of DilantinI read about this on the blog linked above and the...

From the Northwest Lean Network email listserv, about a week ago:" I...

I'm sure most of you are familiar with or have used the Akro blue bins for organizing parts, tools, or a kanban system. The...

Thanks to blog reader Osvaldo for passing this long. If you've read Lean Thinking or anything about Wiremold's lean journey and wondered about...

STLtoday - Business - Story Here is an overview and general awareness article from the St. Louis paper. It's always nice to see lean (and...

Any of the healthcare readers out there attending the SHS conference in New Orleans in February? If so, send me a message via...

Quint Studer is a former hospital CEO who I've mentioned a lot here. He has an outstanding blog now. In his issues, he doesn't...