Tag: Operating Room

Last week, I posted a podcast with Mike George, founder of Strong America Now, an organization that is promoting Lean and Six Sigma methods...

Hospitals are full of workarounds and fire fighting, it's a pretty common problem. That's one reason cost is so high and quality is often...

Today's post is an interview I conducted via email with Justin Holland, Managing Principal of GE Healthcare Americas. Before joining GE, he was most...

Hat tip to Helen Z. for finding this full-page print ad in the New York Times. The full ad appears below in this post,...

Today, July 7, is the birthday of Frank Gilbreth, born this day in 1868. While some of his methods arguably ranked low on the...

Here is an article that discusses the adoption of Lean methods at Akron Children's Hospital ("Hospital embraces lean strategies of manufacturing"). The article spells out...

Lean... and saving green - Materials Management in Healthcare Mag Here's an article in a healthcare trade publication that features the Lean improvements from two...

Frank and Lillian Gilbreth: scientific management in the operating room I sprung $20 for this healthcare journal article about the Gilbreths, thought I'd share a...

I was recently interviewed by a reporter at Becker's Hospital Review and these are the articles, linked below, written for a hospital and operating...

A clear vision for better health care - The Globe and MailThis is an article about Lean improvements in the British Columbia health system,...

I'm sure anybody who has done any work with Lean has heard these words said in one form or another, often prefaced with a...

Hospitals See Benefits of Lean and Six Sigma Regular readers know I often write about what I termed "L.A.M.E." -- Lean as Misguidedly Executed. The...