Tag: Patient Safety

tl;dr summary: The blog post discusses the importance of reporting and solving problems for patient safety in Japan. It highlights stories from two hospitals...

The theme for the next couple of days on the blog is patient safety and the idea of "psychological safety" for employees or physicians...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Sometimes you just need to get a team together and improve.  Here's a good example of use of A3 thinking to...

The other day, I stumbled across an old article that I remember, as it was published in the Wall Street Journal in 2004. The...

Joining me for episode #354 of the podcast is Kim Hollon, the CEO and President of Signature Healthcare, based in Brockton, Massachusetts. I first met...

Kim Hollon is CEO and President at Signature Healthcare. I don't know him well, but I've heard a lot of great things about him...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Does Lean "work" in hospitals in the US?  Sort of, according to the Journal of Healthcare Management.  There is evidence...

Today, I'd like to celebrate my friends at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Iowa for being one of six healthcare organizations to receive the...

Joining me for Episode #352 of the podcast is Frederick Southwick, M.D. He is a Professor of Medicine and is also Director of Patient...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients "Imagine walking into a restaurant and being seated. Sometime after your meal, you receive the check and find an...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients If you set a target without providing a clear path on how you want it achieved, and then punish staff when they fail...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Transformation and quality improvement is rarely sustained without changing management behaviours and management systems. John Toussaint writes about the challenges...