Tag: Patient Safety

Sacramento-area hospitals use simple ways to cut mistakes - Sacramento BeeThis article has some great examples and an endorsement of the Lean mindset in...

I recently invited questions for Michael Balle, the author of the Shingo Prize winning book The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround. He...

Below is a guest post from fellow author and Lean Healthcare practitioner, Naida Grunden.Her book, The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Improving Patient Care...

I'd like to welcome a new blogger to the Lean Healthcare space: Thomas L. Jackson of Rona Consulting and author of these books: Hoshin Kanri...

This is a big day for Lean in healthcare, as here is a link to FoxNews.com with five longer videos about ThedaCare and their...

As I had alluded to the other day, there was a huge investigative piece that ran across the country Sunday in the Hearst Newspapers....

In this post, Mark compiles a range of eye-opening statistics about healthcare quality, patient safety, and medical errors. Acting as a repository of data,...

Hearst Press Release August 09, 2009This will be developing over the next few days. The Hearst newspaper chain has done a huge expose of...

Health care's infectious loss - Video - Business News Short post for today - but an important one. Here's a great video from CNN last...

Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority Supports 'National Patient Safety Day' - Press Releases - CNBC.comI was walking through Boston Common this morning and saw a...

It has been over 10 years since the publication of the Institute of Medicine's study on preventable medical errors: To Err Is Human: Building...

Op-Ed Contributor - Health Care's Infectious Losses - NYTimes.com FINALLY, a major contribution to the discussion about how we need to improve the quality of...