Tag: Healthcare
Conference To Hear How Hospital Saves Time
Conference To Hear How Hospital Saves Time (from This Is Lancashire)I'm sure they are doing good lean healthcare work at this hospital in the...
Bringing Systems Engineering to Healthcare
Breaking the moldA good overview article is linked above, about applying lean, TPS, and systems thinking to healthcare.Two reports cited in the article:"Building a...
Lean Health Care? It Works! (Still)
IndustryWeek : Lean Health Care? It Works!Here is a piece from 2003, still incredibly relevant. There is a great story of how lean...
Even Earlier!
Lean Blog: Early Risers in Healthcare! (My belly aching from March)OK, a new early "low" of sorts. Currently visiting a hospital, patient blood...
More on Lean Pittsburgh Hospitals
Private Sector: Safe hospitals
Here is another great overview of applying lean to hospitals, including a mention of the excellent DVD, "Good News... How Hospitals...
My First Year in Lean Healthcare: Personal Reflections and Lessons Learned
I've been working with "lean healthcare" in my day job for about a year now. I'm giving a presentation on Friday about lean healthcare...
DailyKaizen » Quote of the Week
DailyKaizen » Quote of the WeekAnother great historical quote, check out their lean healthcare blog in the link above."Give so much time to...
Lack of CT Scan Error Proofing Leads to Death
WOAI: San Antonio News - Woman Dies after Medical Mistake at CTRCAn 81 year-old woman died tragically after she was injected with 100cc of...
Fixing Workarounds is Fun
Fun day today. Healthcare, maybe more than other industries, is prone to tolerating and institutionalizing workarounds, as Steven Spear has written about.As I'm...
New Lean Healthcare Blog
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...
Being Careful Isn’t Enough, Particularly in Pathology
One of the core ideas of the Toyota Production System is the recognition that people are indeed human and are therefore fallible (part of...
How Handoffs Can Kill
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...
