Tag: Healthcare

This blog post is a collaboration with a Lean healthcare consulting friend of mine, who heard another unfortunate story from his sister, an emergency...

Episode #361 of the podcast is admittedly not about Lean, but it's an important topic that I think needs to be shared in these...

I had a phone conversation yesterday with an emergency medicine physician after her shift at an unnamed hospital in an undisclosed state. She had a...

I've been thinking a lot about hospitals and how they're preparing for the expected tsunami of Covid-19 patients who will need ICU beds and...

Returning for Episode #360 of the podcast is Leah Binder, the president and CEO of Leapfrog Group. We last talked four years ago in...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Running controlled experiments for evaluating interventions in healthcare is usually infeasible - the presentation of patients can be random...

In my travels, I see many organizations using Year-to-Date (YTD) numbers to evaluate performance. Some of it is in the context, at this moment,...

My guest for Episode #359 of the podcast is Prof. Dr. Alfred Angerer, joining me from Switzerland to talk about Lean healthcare. I had a...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Developing a culture of patient safety requires the ability to raise risks without fear of reprisal.  This post from leanblog.org...

I can't believe that I'm once again writing about this. But, I saw in the news that ANOTHER house was mistakenly demolished in the...

Here is a story that was sent to me by a blog reader, who needs to remain anonymous. I know the blog reader fairly...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients "We have a good people in a bad system".  Here's an excellent interview with Dr. Marty Makary, author of "The...