Tag: Patient Safety

I post here a lot about my most recent podcast series, "My Favorite Mistake," but my first pandemic podcast project was a collaboration with...

Today is the World Health Organization "World Patient Safety Day 2020." Patient safety is not just an American healthcare issue -- see some statistics I...

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Virginia Mason's 20 year pursuit of measurably better value for patients is...

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Health Care Workers Protect Us. It's Time To Protect Them.  Great article...

Back in May, I shared the first episode of a podcast that I'm producing for the firm Value Capture... it's called "Habitual Excellence." I won't...

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Electronic Health Records and Computerized Physician Order Entry were going to reduce...

Today, I went for a brisk 50-minute walk on a sunny morning and my companion was the voice of the late Paul O'Neill as...

I had a phone conversation yesterday with an emergency medicine physician after her shift at an unnamed hospital in an undisclosed state. She had a...

I've been thinking a lot about hospitals and how they're preparing for the expected tsunami of Covid-19 patients who will need ICU beds and...

Returning for Episode #360 of the podcast is Leah Binder, the president and CEO of Leapfrog Group. We last talked four years ago in...

Here is a story that was sent to me by a blog reader, who needs to remain anonymous. I know the blog reader fairly...

I think that working to reduce patient harm (to improve patient safety) is one of the most important (and most noble) applications of Lean. Daily...