Tag: Pharmacy
The Folly of Visual Inspection and the TSA
I've never been a big fan of the TSA or any form of visual inspection. I wasn't a fan, either, of the automated x-ray...
A Lean Guy Watches “CNN’s 25 Shocking Medical Mistakes”
Did anybody else see this show hosted to Elizabeth Cohen on CNN last weekend, titled "25 Shocking Medical Mistakes"? You can see a video...
Lean at the Peterborough (Ontario) Regional Medical Centre
Ontario's Peterborough Regional Medical Centre is about 18 months into their Lean transformation. They are being featured in a series of four articles in...
Will Suggestion Boxes be a Trend in 2012? What Method(s) do...
I saw this article the other day on BusinessInsider.com: "10 Predictions For How The Workplace Will Change In 2012."
Two of the predictions caught my...
Lean in Hospitals: Which Tool or Which Need?
As people first learn about Lean, they often ask questions like "what tools or methods should we use first?" These tools include things like...
As Seen on TV: Random Lean Terms in Commercials
On a recent Sunday morning, I was watching cable news channels and two different commercials had a word jump out at me, words that...
Systems in Place to Prevent These Medication Errors? Seems Not…
A few weeks ago, I saw a horrific story about a retail pharmacy error in the article "Pharmacy Mistakenly Gives Pregnant Woman Abortion Pill."...
Report: CPOE Technology is Not a Silver Bullet (No Surprise?)
Lean thinkers and TPS advocates sometimes get a bad rap as being Luddites. That's not true, I'd say it's more that Lean thinkers have...
A Glimpse into a “3P” Lean Space Design Process
Paul Levy has shared some photos and a video, from Boston's Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center, that gives a glimpse into the design of...
Liveblogging the Quaid Patient Safety Documentary
I'm blogging notes and thoughts as I watch the Discovery Channel documentary by actor Dennis Quaid and others -- "Chasing Zero: Winning the...
Reducing Medication Waste for VA Patients
Obama Awards Budget-Minded Federal Employee
I saw this in the news yesterday about a federal employee from the VA, Nancy Fichtner, a clerk at the...
Use 5 Sequential “Whys,” not 5 Random Ones, to Dig Deeper...
I had an opportunity to coach somebody, remotely, the other day on the Lean problem-solving process called "the 5 Whys."
The person presented a situation...
