Tag: Healthcare

DailyKaizenI don't know if it's fair to call the DailyKaizen site a "lean healthcare" blog, I think we can all learn from it as...

One of the core ideas of the Toyota Production System is the recognition that people are indeed human and are therefore fallible (part of...

Hospitals combat errors at the 'hand-off'I've blogged before about how handoffs in a process create opportunities for errors. I wrote about a trivial...

Today's Detroit News wrote about lean in healthcare, this time in their own beloved University of Michigan system. Titled "U-M Hospital Takes Page from...

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Overseas transcription errors 'putting patients' lives at risk'It's not news that many hospitals are strapped for cash....

Hospitals move to cut dangerous lab errorsHere is a free version of a WSJ article from last week. I know I've been posting...

MedQIC - Patient-Centered Care Supported by an EHR The link above (and this audio-video presentation with similar content) tell an amazing story of a private...

Drug in Fatal Medical Error A Known Hazard in Hospitals | theledger.comHere is another sad example of the need for lean methods for quality...

Curious Cat Management Improvement: Lean National Health SystemThere's a link on John's blog to a Dan Jones presentation, along the lines of the British...

Bloated NHS to get the Tesco treatment - Britain - Times Online:Thanks to Rob G. (from the UK) for pointing this out to me....

BCNG Portals PageI've posted "lean healthcare" articles here about what's described by the media as "ER congestion." They always describe the sad situation...

Study: Doctors Don't Wash Hands Enough Over the weekend, in a trade publication, I read yet another survey about MD's (especially surgeons) not washing their...