Tag: Healthcare
Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 1, 2019
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
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
Joining me today for Episode #330 of the podcast is Christoph Roser, a professor of production management at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences...
A Patient’s Perspective: Hospital Surveys Miss the Mark
Mark's note: Mike Sporer has commented a few times on blog posts and I invited him to write this guest post after we exchanged...
Podcast #329 – Mike Eisenberg, The Film “To Err is Human”...
Joining me today for Episode #329 of the podcast is Mike Eisenberg, the director, editor, and producer of the film "To Err is Human," a...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 18, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Too often, patient involvement in design and research is tokenist or "tick-box", and requires burdensome processes for participation. To truly design...
“We Have Gotten Too Far From our People and the Core...
Mark's Note: Today's post is written by Ken Segel, the managing director of Value Capture, LLC. This is the first of what I hope...
Podcast #328 – Bette Gardner and Jeff Heil, Friday Night at...
My guests for Episode #328 are Bette Gardner and Jeff Heil, of the company Breakthrough Learning. Bette is the creator of a fantastic simulation...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: Best of 2018
Hi All - here's a collection of the most read Mixtape links from 2018. I compiled the links with the greatest number of viewers and...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 21, 2018
Mark's Note: I've known Ryan McCormack for many years now, thanks to his previous work in Lean healthcare and his attendance at Lean Healthcare...
Podcast #327 – Marc Rouppe van der Voort, Lean in Dutch...
My guest for Episode #327 of the podcast is Marc Rouppe van der Voort, Ph.D., who is joining me from Utrecht in the Netherlands....
Using Process Behavior Charts to Compare Knee Surgeons and Complication Rates
This post is a continuation of my last post that introduced the idea of using Process Behavior Charts (PBCs) for something other than time-series...