Tag: Healthcare

If you liked my January 2011 podcast with Jack Billi, MD, from the University of Michigan Health System and Medical School, be sure to...

Some of you might not care about college football, but I'm always interested in a story about people gaming a system and what drives...

I arrived in San Francisco yesterday for the Lean Startup conference, where I gave my 5-minute Ignite format talk on the parallels between Lean...

Here is video #8 in our series of  short, simple Kaizen education videos from KaiNexus, a software startup where I am on the management team (see...

Here is a commentary that was written by Gary S. Kaplan, MD, the CEO of Virginia Mason Medical Center: "The Lean Approach to Health...

Last week, while flying back from my trip to Japan, I watched a video that had been recommended to me a few times (including...

While working in different environments and different industries, I've seen many work requirements that were deemed "non-negotiable" by management - and rightly so.  For...

I was quoted / interviewed in this piece that was published by daSILVEA Architects: "Re-thinking Healthcare: Improving Patient Care through Design." My friends Naida...

Yesterday, our Lean Healthcare tour of Japan (with Kaizen Institute) took us to our second hospital, this time in Tokyo. The CEO, Shuhei Iida,...

Although I blog most often about Lean healthcare, I know a good number of my blog readers are from the "Lean Startup" world who...

This week, I was able to drop by the annual Lab Quality Confab event since it was being held in here in San Antonio....

The dates have been announced for the 4th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. It will be held  June 5-6, 2013. Co-hosted by the Lean...