Tag: ThedaCare

My Four Hypotheses for Friday’s DFW Healthcare/Industry Lean Gathering

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Coming off of an outstanding 2011 Lean Transformation Summit (blog posts to come), John Toussaint, MD, is doing a huge favor for the Dallas-Fort...

Enough with the Factory Bashing, Please – Healthcare Professionals and WIRED...

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Those of you who know my background know that I spent the first 10 years of my career working in various manufacturing sectors (including...

Las Vegas Paper Writes Series on Patient Safety Failings, Hospital Culture

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I found this lengthy series of articles from the Las Vegas Sun, published under the heading of  "Do No Harm: Hospital Care in...

St. Louis Paper Features Lean at Barnes-Jewish Hospital

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Just before the new year, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch featured the Lean efforts at Barnes-Jewish Hospital ("St. Louis hospital among handful using efficiency to...

Notes From My Second Day at #IHI 2011

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Following up my notes from Day 1, I'm sharing my notes from the second full day I attended on Wednesday, December 8 2010. Here, in...

Why Nurses Should Reject “LAME” and Demand Lean

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There's a long-standing argument that I've been dragged into with a group that calls itself "new systems thinkers." They loudly criticize Lean as being...

Follow Up Q&A from “On the Mend” Webinar

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The Lean Enterprise Institute has posted the follow up text Q&A by John Toussaint MD and Roger Gerard PhD, co-authors of the book On...

Collected Quality and Patient Safety Improvement Statistics – #Lean Healthcare

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I'm going to use this blog post / page to collect published statistics about the impact the Lean management philosophy has had on healthcare...

A Few Random Links – Oct 22 2010

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It's time for a Lean Blog feature where I throw a few links at you - articles I've saved and read that maybe don't...

Another Annual Update on a New Zealand Emergency Department

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It seems to be an annual event to see a news story about a New Zealand emergency department, Dunedin Hospital (not pictured at left)...

My Guest Article on Lean as an Alternative to Hospital Layoffs

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Thanks to FierceHealthcare.com for publishing my guest article on the front page of their site: "How lean management helped hospitals avoid layoffs." The article features...

“Dr. Ideas” – Magazine Article Featuring John Toussaint

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In what looks like a badly Photoshopped cover - it's a real photo, I've confirmed - INSIGHT Magazine, a Wisconsin business publication, has an...