Tag: Healthcare
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...
The Evolution of Lean in Healthcare
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...
We Need Lean, Not Cost Cutting
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Overseas transcription errors 'putting patients' lives at risk'It's not news that many hospitals are strapped for cash....
The Need for Lean Laboratories
Hospitals move to cut dangerous lab errorsHere is a free version of a WSJ article from last week. I know I've been posting...
Amazing Single Piece Flow MD Office
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...
The Need for Lean Healthcare
Drug in Fatal Medical Error A Known Hazard in Hospitals | theledger.comHere is another sad example of the need for lean methods for quality...
Dan Jones Lean Healthcare Presentation
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...
Lean Healthcare in the UK
Bloated NHS to get the Tesco treatment - Britain - Times Online:Thanks to Rob G. (from the UK) for pointing this out to me....
