Tag: Value Stream Mapping
Lean Healthcare “Success” Without Benefits? What?
I saw the following in a submission for a session at the 2012 Society for Health Systems conference, where I'm the Lean track chair.
One...
Warning: You Can’t Even Draw a Map with this “Value Stream...
If you are a Twitter user and follow the #Lean hashtag on Twitter, you might have seen a lot of noise from a company...
Denver Health’s Lean Patient Safety Improvements on PBS’ NewsHour
On June 30, the PBS NewsHour program did a 7-minute story on healthcare improvement (featuring Lean and Toyota methods) at Denver Health.
You can also...
Guest Post: The Chain of Improvement
Mark's note: Today's guest post is from Dr. Mark Jaben. I first met Mark in person at Cindy Jimmerson's Lean Healthcare West conference in...
Audio Story w Pictures: Lean at Virginia Mason Medical Center &...
Here is a video from the St. Louis Beacon (actually, an NPR-style audio story with pictures) about Lean healthcare at Virginia Mason Medical Center,...
From SHS: Ohio Health Reduces Surgical Site Infections Using Lean
A few weeks back, I attended the Society for Health Systems (SHS) Conference in Orlando, where I chaired the Patient Flow track. There were...
10 Key Lean Mindsets for Healthcare
I really enjoyed having the chance to be in Cincinnati yesterday to participate in a Lean Healthcare workshop put on by TechSolve, a non-profit...
St. Louis Paper Features Lean at Barnes-Jewish Hospital
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...
Guest Post: Lean Value Streams
Mark's note: Today is the first of what might be a regular series of guest posts from the team at Lean Pathways, Inc., including...
Don’t Speed Up or Improve a Workaround Process – Fix the...
Hospitals are full of workarounds and fire fighting, it's a pretty common problem. That's one reason cost is so high and quality is often...
Another Annual Update on a New Zealand Emergency Department
It seems to be an annual event to see a news story about a New Zealand emergency department, Dunedin Hospital (not pictured at left)...
Management Improvement Carnival #111
Again, I'm very happy to host the Carnival for John Hunter and his Curious Cat blog. My job here is to share some noteworthy...
