Tag: Patient Safety

March 4 to 10 has been "Patient Safety Awareness Week" from the National Patient Safety Foundation. I'm certainly in favor of patient safety and have...

This made news on Wednesday - Dr. Donald M. (Don) Berwick stepped down as CMS Administrator: "Harvard professor Don Berwick resigns as Medicare chief."...

The more I visit different hospitals, the more I tend to roll my eyes at the different signs that aim to remind staff and/or...

People in healthcare know that miscommunications are a major cause of errors and patient harm. There was a strange footnote to game 5 of...

Hat tip to Dan Markovitz for pointing out this excellent post on John Toussaint's blog: "The Key Leadership Behaviors in a Lean Organization?" The...

Some people might find this graphic inflammatory, if they are feeling defensive about the state of healthcare and if they feel like they are...

When I recently interviewed Paul O'Neill and Dr. Richard Shannon about the amazing improvements in patient safety that had been made in the Pittsburgh...

Podcast #127 is a very special conversation with a leader and a hero of mine in the world of patient safety, Richard P. Shannon,...

On his blog, John Toussaint shared this letter from ThedaCare CEO Dean Gruner to all employees. Toussaint said the letter is inspired by Paul...

Today's post is a case study submitted by  Abdul N. Mansour,  Director Lean & Process Improvement at  Scottsdale (AZ) Healthcare. The material here and...

Listen I have a very special guest for Podcast #124 -  he is Paul O'Neill, the U.S. Treasury Secretary from 2001 to 2002 and former...

I was at the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value office a few months ago when Dr. John Toussaint reported that he had gotten a...