Tag: Healthcare

What is Meant by “A Culture of Safety” in Healthcare? How...

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I stumbled across this article the other day, on the important issue of medication errors: Medication Errors: The Year in Review "Preventing medication errors is an...

Waste Upon Waste: Misadventures in Getting Electronic Medical Records Transferred

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I know I'm not alone in being frustrated by something as simple -- seemingly simple -- as transferring electronic medical records from one physician's...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: April 7th, 2023

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Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: March 24th, 2023

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Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: March 10th, 2023

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Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get...

Empower Your Team: Join Dr. Lisa Yerian’s Webinar on Building a...

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I was happy to host a webinar, as part of the KaiNexus Continuous Improvement Webinar series that was be presented by Dr. Lisa Yerian,...

Beyond Discipline: You Can’t Punish Your Way to Perfection

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For a long time, it's bothered me that organizations typically react to a mistake with punishment. This is even more annoying when the phrase...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 24th, 2023

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Thanks as always to Ryan McCormack for this... there's always so much good reading, listening, and viewing shared here by him! Subscribe to get...

Learning from Mistakes: An Operating Room Case Study on the Consequences...

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This article caught my eye today, and it's a change of pace to think about and write about mistakes other than my own (and...

Celebrating Love with a Lean Twist: Creative Ideas for Valentine’s Day

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Reposted from 2014... It's Valentine's Day. I'll be on a flight home from Boston later, hoping to see my wife at least a little...

Alternative History: Toyota’s CEO Accelerates Lean Healthcare Improvement in the 2000s

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Following up on my recent collaboration with ChatGPT ("Alternative History: GM Uses Lean to Remain #1 in the Auto Industry"), I also asked the...

When Burnout Turns to Moral Injury for Healthcare Clinicians

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Here's a sad article from the New York Times... the article link should make it free to read for non-subscribers. Doctors Aren't Burned Out From...