If you’ve been following any of the posts about healthcare, here are a few interesting follow ups.

Following up on this post about Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, CEO Paul Levy posted many interesting employee responses to his email about the systemic waste that people have to fight every day in your typical hospital (and there).

After the medical mistake with Dennis Quaid’s twins in L.A., I had asked Paul what BIDMC was doing to proactively protect against that same error from happening at their hospital. Paul asked some of staff and posted a lengthy response here.

About LeanBlog.org: Mark Graban is a consultant, author, and speaker in the “lean healthcare” methodology, focused on improving quality and patient safety, improving access, reducing costs, and fully engaging healthcare professionals. He is also the Chief Improvement Officer for KaiNexus.

Tagged as: Error Proofing, Healthcare, Patient Safety, Pharmacy