Tag: Healthcare

Podcast #337 – Vance Jackson, a Lean Healthcare CEO from West...

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It's my second straight podcast with a healthcare CEO. This time, joining me for Episode #337 is Vance Jackson, FACHE, FACMPE, the President &...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: March 15, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients The new venture between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase to fix healthcare is called "Haven" according to a new press...

Podcast #336 – Gladys Bogoshi, a Lean Healthcare CEO from South...

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My guest for Episode #336 is Gladys Bogoshi, the Chief Executive Officer at Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, one of the ten central hospitals...

Why Every Week Should be Patient Safety Awareness Week

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My typing is a bit hampered after my finger surgery still. At least my surgery was safe and my outcomes seem to be good....

Operational Excellence Mixtape: March 1, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Ontario is betting big on an untested hypothesis of reorganizing and consolidating healthcare operations and budgets predicting it will result...

Flashback Friday: The Craziness of “Top Doctor” Lists That Aren’t Necessarily...

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Back in 2013, I wrote a LinkedIn article (orread on Medium) about how the "Doctors: Best of 2013" list in a San Antonio magazine...

Muda? Don’t Forget About Mura and Muri!

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Recently, I blogged about how a Lean hospital would focus on reducing overwork on nurses and other staff: https://www.leanblog.org/2019/01/lean-should-be-the-solution-to-hospital-overwork-or-understaffing/ Another term that could be used is...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 15, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Daily safety huddles are simple, inexpensive, and effective methods to raise and escalate patient safety risks.  Start your safety...

Podcast #331 – Dr. Eric Dickson, a CEO’s Perspective on Lean...

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My guest today for Episode #331 is Eric W. Dickson, MD, MHCM, FACEP, a Professor of Emergency Medicine at UMass Medical School and Chief...

Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 1, 2019

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Why do we have to wake up patients to take vital signs every 4 hours if they are stable? ...

Lean Should be the Solution to Hospital Overwork or Understaffing

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The first part of this post is a pretty long introduction before sharing quotes and views from an article that raises concerns about Lean...

Podcast #330 – Christoph Roser, His Grand Tour of Japanese Automakers

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Joining me today for Episode #330 of the podcast is Christoph Roser, a professor of production management at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences...