Tag: Healthcare

Why don’t we do what we know we’re supposed to do?...

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It's easy to point fingers at others who don't do what they know they're supposed to do. Why don't those nurses and doctors properly clean...

A #Kaizen Example from St. Francis: From “Flavored Snot” to Applesauce...

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Here's the latest video in the series that Joe Swartz and I shot at Franciscan St. Francis Health back in October. See them all...

The “Productivity Paradox” of Healthcare IT and the ROI Paradox of...

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I've been reading a preview copy of the upcoming book (due out in April) by Dr. Bob Wachter, The Digital Doctor. It's fantastic and...

What Does ThedaCare CEO Dean Gruner, MD Say About Safety?

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For today's "Throwback Thursday," I recently re-watched parts of a DVD I helped produce a few years back for the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare...

Cool Stuff from KaiNexus – A Quiz, Video, Haikus, Webinar, and...

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Our team has been doing some cool stuff over on our KaiNexus website and I wanted to batch up the sharing of some of...

What President Bill Clinton and VP Joe Biden Said About Patient...

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Healthcare has become very politicized in the U.S. (and in Canada and other countries). I think the patient safety crisis (and trying to solve...

Audio Parody – “Lean Serial”

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My wife and I were late to the wildly popular podcast "Serial," but we listened to the first six episodes while traveling over the...

Mark Graban Interviewed by Dr. Bob Wachter on Lean & Patient...

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I'm honored to have been interviewed by Dr. Robert Wachter for his "Web M&M" interview series on the AHRQ website. In Conversation with...Mark Graban, MS, MBA Dr....

Visiting and Touring the Toyota Tsutsumi Plant, Part 2

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Last week, I wrote a post (part 1) looking back at our visit to the Toyota Tsutsumi factory that was part of our Japan tour that took...

Webinar Previews: Lean is All About People? Leadership Behaviors for Kaizen

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Tomorrow afternoon, I'm doing two different webinars that I hope you'll want to sign up for. Even if you can't attend live, I'd encourage you...

#Throwback Thursday: Punishing and Jailing People for Patient Harm

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Today is another "Throwback Thursday" post where I revisit posts from the past. Friday and Saturday, I'm going to be attending the "Patient Safety,...

Fear of speaking up is a broader problem, not just in...

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Announcement: Dr. Greg Jacobson and I are doing a new webinar for KaiNexus on "More Leadership Behaviors That Create a Culture of Continuous Improvement'"...