Tag: Healthcare

Every few years, we see news articles about virtual reality robots that will roam hospital hallways - delivering medicines or supplies or allowing remote...

My friend Mike Thelen, who works in the dairy industry, has a guest post I'm going to publish next week talking about the seemingly...

This is all somewhat preliminary, but I've been talking to the folks at the Kaizen Institute  about helping organize a study trip to Japan,...

Just heard on CNN, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts: "... Congress had a balanced intent. You can't look at another provision and say...

Under Blog Break rules, I'll just post this article that I was quoted extensively in: "Author: Hospitals can use lean techniques to drive improvements...

Last week, an article in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye: "The Robots Are Coming to Hospitals:  A New Breed of Blue-Collar Robots...

Since the webinar I'm doing later today for Gemba Academy (Using SPC to Make Better Management Decisions) allows me to cite the late great...

My co-author, Joe Swartz, and I did a soft launch a few weeks back, but we're happy to announce that the full website for...

Here is an hour-long lecture given by John Toussaint, MD - shared by the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value. There isn't a lot of...

For the third year, my good friends at the Lean Enterprise Institute, the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, and the Healthcare Value Network are...

Mark's note: Thanks to Freek Dekker for this guest post. I met Freek at last year's Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, as he was part...

Oh geez, that's an awful pun in the post title. Sorry. As an increasing number of health systems are using "Lean design" approaches for...