Tag: Patient Safety
5S for Crash Carts
BBC NEWS | Health | Breathing life into resuscitationThanks to my old boss, Mike, for sending this my way. Here's an article (with pictures,...
Two Events This Week – Presenting and Attending
I wanted to remind you about an online event I'm presenting for Thursday afternoon and tell you about a new event (local to Dallas)...
Why Do Hospitals Have to Rely on Vigilant Patients and Families?
Bedside Manner: Advocating for a Relative in the Hospital (WSJ)
WSJ Health Blog (free): Five Tips for Helping a Family Member in the Hospital
I've written...
Birthday Ramblings on Errors and Work Design
Kevin Meyer, over at Evolving Excellence, recently wrote a good piece on "endorsing" a U.S. presidential candidate. Today, I'm technically Constitution-eligible to be...
Words that Matter in Healthcare
Healthcare Intelligence Network » Blog Archive » Eight Steps to a Culture of SafetyI think words matter. Action matters, also, but the...
Hospital errors strike again (and again and again and again!)
By Mike Thelen:Having spent the last 10 years working within Lean disciplines, it is second nature to identify shortcomings in any business model from...
Wow, the Joint Commission Moves Slowly
Heparin errors and patient harm have been in the news quite a bit the last few years. So what are hospital regulators doing about...
"More Careful" or "Better Processes"?
NHS: 60,000 medication blunders in 18 months - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The IndependentTrust me, I'm not picking on the NHS. There's...
A Powerful Message on Lean and Healthcare
Why I Work In Healthcare | DailyKaizenHere's a great one to end the day on... Lee Fried has a powerful post over on the...
Tom Peters: The high number of hospital-caused drug errors and infections...
From Modern Healthcare (link no longer available), Tom Peters throws a few verbal bombs at the healthcare industry:
Quality gains needn't be costly, Peters tells...
Let the Process Experts Decide
Leading article: Infected by political calculationThis isn't a "Lean" story, per se, but it still caught my eye. Hospital-acquired infections are a major problem...
What Do You Think of This Sign?
A reader sent this picture from a hospital restroom. I'm not sure if the reader is a patient parent or a hospital employee. They...