Monthly Archives: July 2012
Henry Ford Health System’s TV Ad on Patient Safety
Hat tip to my dad who saw this commercial on TV back home in Detroit. It's an ad from the Henry Ford Health System,...
Join Me at the Northeast Shingo Prize Conference, Sept 25-26
I hope you'll join me and a lot of Lean friends at the 2012 Northeast Shingo Prize Conference, to be held in Worcester, MA...
Podcast #154 – Rick Morrow, Healthcare Process Improvement, High Reliability, and Lean Six Sigma
My guest for episode #154 is Rick Morrow, a director at Healthcare Performance Partners and author of the book Utilizing the 3Ms of Process...
CBC on Lean in Saskatchewan Hospitals
I've been to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan before -- in February. It was a very cold, snowy place, to say the least! But, there are many...
Weekend Fun: GMBP’s “WIP IT”
Ah, the perks of subscribing to the GBMP's YouTube channel... this might be basically a world premiere, breaking news video release.
I *never* thought I'd...
MD Anderson Presentation: W. Edwards Deming: The Man and the Message
MD Anderson Cancer Center shares a lot of great material online and at conferences. here is an audio presentation (with slides) by Doris Quinn,...
Quoted in: 7 Ways Lean Healthcare Management Reduces Cost
Thanks to Healthcare Finance News for interviewing me for this piece they ran this week: "7 ways lean healthcare management reduces cost."
As I think...
Looking at Medical Mistakes – Learning and Preventing or Repeating?
Working in healthcare, it's hard not finding stories about preventable errors. I keep hearing stories from friends and family - such as my relative...
New @KaiNexus “Explainer Video” – With 3 Use Cases
In the "Lean Startup" parlance, our startup KaiNexus is not going into an existing market - we are working to develop a new market...
Podcast #153 – Psychologist Robert Maurer, PhD, One Small Step Can Change Your Life:...
Joining me for Podcast #153 is Robert Maurer, PhD, Director of Behavioral Sciences for the Family Practice Residency Program at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center...
Author Video – Mark Graban on “Healthcare Kaizen”
In conjunction with my publisher, Productivity Press (CRC Press), we've produced a short author video where I'm addressing some questions they wanted me to...
ASQ Influential Voices: Quality & Social Responsibility (& Lean)
In this month's ASQ blog post, their CEO Paul Borawski writes a new post "The Intersection of Quality and Social Responsibility," where he defines...
