Monthly Archives: June 2012
“Healthcare Kaizen” In Stock at Amazon; In the News
It's an exciting week, as copies of our new book Healthcare Kaizen are shipping from the publisher (@BrianBuck told me he received shipping notification...
Even with “ObamaCare” Upheld, Much Hard Work Remains to Protect Patients and Make Care...
The Supreme Court has mainly upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, including the individual mandate and other controversial provisions. The court did...
New Book by @PaulFLevy – “Goal Play!” with Lessons for Healthcare
Paul Levy, the former CEO of Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, is a long time friend of mine and this blog (read his...
Are Suggestion Boxes Really Going Away? What Say Amazon?
Last week, I found and read an article, "Whatever happened to the company suggestion box?," that makes some really great points about the problems...
Michigan Lean Consortium 2012 Conference – Establishing a Winning Culture
Although I've lived in Texas since 1999 (other than a few years in Phoenix), Michigan is my home state, having grown up in Livonia...
More Than Grammar in This WSJ Grammar Quiz
Last week, my dad pointed out this grammar quiz on the Wall Street Journal website (as part of the article "This Embarrasses You and...
Analyzing the Kaizen Improvements in Our Book “Healthcare Kaizen”
I went through our new book Healthcare Kaizen to categorize the different improvement examples in the book...
We have, by my count, 124 examples from...
“Healthcare Kaizen” Now Shipping from CRCpress.com!
Great news from my publisher today - our new book Healthcare Kaizen is in stock at the CRC Press / Productivity Press warehouse and...
KaiNexus Updates – White Paper and Customer Videos
I've been busy over the past year working with the startup KaiNexus. Our technology is now being used (or in the process of going...
Healthcare Kaizen: You Mean Everyone Isn’t Doing This?
I've done a number of radio interviews recently to talk about our soon-to-be-released book Healthcare Kaizen. I haven't posted them all here, but check...
Moving Beyond “Be More Careful”
Last weekend, I watched a show on the Smithsonian Channel that was an interesting contrast to the CNN show I blogged about yesterday ("A...
A Lean Guy Watches “CNN’s 25 Shocking Medical Mistakes”
Did anybody else see this show hosted to Elizabeth Cohen on CNN last weekend, titled "25 Shocking Medical Mistakes"? You can see a video...
