Mark Graban

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

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

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...

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 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...

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...

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

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

Produced in partnership with the Healthcare Value Network, episode #119 is a discussion with Dean Gruner, MD, the president & CEO of ThedaCare. Here, we talk about Strategy Deployment as a Lean management system and how it fits into their ongoing management and improvement efforts in their health system.

I know about 35% of you are reading from outside of the United States, but it is a national holiday here today, Memorial Day....

Here is a video from the St. Louis Beacon (actually, an NPR-style audio story with pictures) about Lean healthcare at Virginia Mason Medical Center,...

Today's post is a short one, a bit of a visual puzzler and a reader participation post (leave a comment!). If you were in the...