Tag: ThedaCare

Reminder: I'll be on "The Lean Nation" today at 4 PM (more details) In this article about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, "Inside Mark Zuckerberg's (rather...

Join the co-authors of the book "On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the Industry", John Toussaint MD and Roger Gerard...

One of the things I get frustrated with is people who want to take shortcuts with Lean. There are some who are only interested...

While I was on vacation, the news (the BBC World Service, mainly) focused quite a lot on the BP oil spill in the gulf,...

We had an amazing first day at the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit here in Orlando. We have 260 Lean healthcare leaders, including about 30...

ThedaCare, the health system in Wisconsin, often gets a lot of attention for the Lean improvements in their four hospitals, but they are also...

I wanted to post a few updates about some efforts related to the Lean Enterprise Institute: WIHI audio session on lean healthcare today 4 PM...

Something Lean is in the water in Wisconsin, as that state is one of the hotbeds of Lean healthcare. There's, of course, the ThedaCare...

The Winnipeg Free Press has an article about their local St. Boniface Hospital, a member of the LEI/ThedaCare network I'm involved with called the...

Due out in June is a book that I think will be an important one for the Lean Healthcare movement. That book is about...

Noted patient safety expert Dr. Lucian Leape spoke out recently about medical school culture being a root cause of poor quality (see my blog...

Those who follow Lean healthcare know that Virginia Mason Medical Center, in Seattle, is one of the world's leaders in improving care through Lean...