Lean Healthcare Around the World

by Mark Graban on February 26, 2009 · 3 comments

Hello from Connecticut…. it’s always fascinating to me to see the spread of Lean healthcare around the world. When I attended the Lean Enterprise Institute global summit on Lean Healthcare in the UK in 2007, they had attendees from 20 countries in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. There are great examples of Lean improvement in England, Australia, New Zealand, and nearly everywhere in between.

I’ve received many emails from people around the world. One hospital in Sweden was buying nearly 100 copies to distribute to staff members who were going to use the book to study Lean (I’m still waiting for my invite to visit, ahem!!). :-)

I recently pulled up a map that shows where the most recent visitors to my book’s website came from:

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The list, leaving off a few countries with just one visitor: (click on any of these for a larger view):

Fullscreen+capture+2252009+92335+PM Lean Healthcare Around the World leanHere is a close up of the European map:

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And the U.S.:

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Isn’t it great that this “Japanese” system is a global movement in health care? To quote a nursing student who was visiting one of my client sites recently, “This makes sense… why aren’t more hospitals doing this?”

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1 Anonymous February 27, 2009 at 11:22 am

Wow would have been sweet if you google-ized it instead of using the screen shots for the maps….

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2 Mark Graban February 27, 2009 at 11:24 am

How do I do that? I think I get a screenshot from my stats provider…

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3 Mark Graban February 27, 2009 at 11:38 am

According to Google Analytics, my blog has received

20,042 visits came from 121 countries/territories

Not sure how to share that info in an interactive way…

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