Tag: Quality

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...

My guest for Episode #353 of the podcast is somebody whose work I've appreciated for a long time -- Quint Studer. I was first...

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is the oldest children's hospitals in the United States. I don't think I've ever been there, but I remember...

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...

Medical errors are not a laughing matter. Harm (or death) resulting from preventable process problems are far more common than most people might think. This...

It's been a busy few weeks for me with work travel and, blogwise, I'm winding down into a few weeks of "blog vacation" (which...

Hat tip to Stan Feingold from StoreSMART (a Lean Blog sponsor) for sending me this article: Bob Lutz Talks Panel Gaps, Tesla, and Why Every...

A few of you sent me this article from Modern Healthcare (thanks!): Virginia Mason Health CEO Dr. Gary Kaplan wages a war on waste As you...

Yesterday's blog post was about a situation (with my podcast hosting service) that triggered memories of my time at General Motors in 1995. Today's...

Ever since I started podcasting in 2006, I've been using a company called "Hipcast" to be the "hosting" company for the podcast audio files...

Back in 2006, I wrote my first blog post about the unfortunate use of "assembly line" to mean "bad quality." The context there was...