Tag: Kaizen

Today's guest is Eric Dickson,MD, MHCM, FACEP, the president and CEO of UMass Medical Center. Today's podcast is a recording of an interview that I did on stage at the 2015 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, as part of the CEO panel I was moderating.

There's a really good article that was published by Modern Healthcare as a special report, written by Sabriya Rice. Sabriya spent a week observing a rapid improvement event (RIE) at the Sts. Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center in Illinois. It's an in depth article that, I think, very accurately reflects the reality that Lean is helpful, but the process isn't easy for a number of reasons.

In th KaiNexus webinar that I did with Dr. Greg Jacobson earlier this week ("Making Time for For Continuous Improvement" - view the recording), I...

It's been a little while, but here's a new video about Kaizen and continuous improvement from our friends at Franciscan St. Francis Health in...

I'm proud of the work that the team at KaiNexus has done in the four years that I've been involved with the company in...

I guess this counts as a "Flashback Friday," as I was reminded of an old game show that I loved as a kid: Match...

I've gone to Japan twice now with Kaizen Institute to study Lean with healthcare professionals from around the world. I first went in 2012,...

I love the show "Silicon Valley" and I just "binge watched" all ten episodes of Season 2 while traveling home from vacation. A few...

I'm back from two weeks of vacation and I'm going to ease back into social media and the blog, which includes a free webinar...

I'm a big nerd in that I love reading newspapers basically cover to cover. I'm a nerd in many ways, I guess. You don't...

When I teach about Kaizen and continuous improvement, I try to use scenarios and cases to help people think through how they would respond...

My wife and I were in Boston over the weekend, as it was her fifth reunion from her MIT master's program. I'm also an...