Tag: Quality
Quoted in: 7 Ways Lean Healthcare Management Reduces Cost
Thanks to Healthcare Finance News for interviewing me for this piece they ran this week: "7 ways lean healthcare management reduces cost."
As I think...
Looking at Medical Mistakes – Learning and Preventing or Repeating?
Working in healthcare, it's hard not finding stories about preventable errors. I keep hearing stories from friends and family - such as my relative...
ASQ Influential Voices: Quality & Social Responsibility (& Lean)
In this month's ASQ blog post, their CEO Paul Borawski writes a new post "The Intersection of Quality and Social Responsibility," where he defines...
“Quality Digest Live” Video Archive & Follow Up Post on Standardized...
Thanks to the guys at Quality Digest... I was on their weekly video show "Quality Digest Live" last week, talking about "Healthcare Kaizen." You...
Analyzing the Kaizen Improvements in Our Book “Healthcare Kaizen”
I went through our new book Healthcare Kaizen to categorize the different improvement examples in the book...
We have, by my count, 124 examples from...
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...
The Passing of Dr. Genichi Taguchi: January 1, 1924 – June...
ASQ and others have announced the passing of a quality legend, Dr. Genichi Taguchi, in Japan, at age 88.
Dr. Taguchi is known for, among...
Virginia Mason’s Improvement Cited in NYT Editorial; Their New Blog
Virginia Mason Medical Center, a world-renowned leader in the application of Lean principles in healthcare, has a new blog: Virginia Mason Blog. They name...
Weekend Fun: This Park Puts the K in Quality
Near our old home in the Fort Worth, Texas area was this city park in Southlake. The sign always made me do a double...
Goodbye Dr. House, Hello “Respect for People”
Dr. Robert Wachter has a great column in today's USA Today: "Column: Gregory House M.D.: RIP" and it's republished on his blog, with its...
TED Video: Atul Gawande: How do we heal medicine?
There's a new TED conference video from April 2012 featuring Dr. Atul Gawande, author of amazing books including The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get...
