Monthly Archives: June 2011

Summit 2011: Lean Transformation Videos from St. Boniface Hospital

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We had a great first day at our Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Seattle (with lots of tweets from attendees you can follow along...

Opportunities for Domestic Medical Tourism to Lean Hospitals?

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There was an interesting article in the most recent Inc. Magazine called "Domestic Medical Tourism: How one company is saving businesses big bucks on...

Guest Post: The Chain of Improvement

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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...

Stopping the Blame Game

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This one got stuck in the "stuff to blog about" pile for a few months, but HBR published a gem of an article called...

Vote for Real Healthcare Leaders in Modern Healthcare’s “Most 100 Influential” Survey

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Vote for this year's "Modern Healthcare's Most 100 Influential" list. Click here. Sadly, Dr. John Toussaint is not on the list of nominees. I voted for...

Lean Lessons for Healthcare from a Boeing 737 Factory Video

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Podcaster Cali Lewis (a fellow DFW-area Texan) hosts a show called GeekBeat.tv, where she normally highlights new consumer tech gadgets and nerdy robots from...

Frequently Highlighted Passages in “Lean Hospitals”

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I love my Amazon Kindle (I have had a 2nd generation 3G Kindle for about two years). Amazon has recently made the device more...

Dr. Gawande’s Commencement Address: Cowboys or Pit Crews?

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Most (all?) of us here did NOT graduate from Harvard Medical School last week. But, we all can read the commencement address that was...