Tag: Healthcare

The Invisible Waste in Healthcare Leads to Visible Harm to Patients

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In a car assembly plant, they do a pretty good job of ensuring that no assembly line worker has to do 70 seconds worth...

Going to Japan to Study Lean in November – Any Advice...

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I had previously blogged about this Lean healthcare study trip to Japan, but I'm really excited that it's coming up soon! I depart in...

Lean Healthcare & Virginia Mason Medical Center on the PBS News...

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Yesterday's PBS News Hour had a piece on the use of Lean and the Toyota Production System at Seattle's Virginia Mason Medical Center: It's a...

Make Patients Responsible for Reporting Medical Errors? Really?

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Karen Wolk Feinstein, president and CEO and the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative, channeled the Saturday Night Live Weekend Update segment "Really!?!" in this recent...

Just Call it “5S Six Sigma” Instead of “Lean Sigma,” Please

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My whole career, I have worked with the Lean methodology (aka the Toyota Production System). I've just really never done much with Six Sigma....

Stuff I’m Reading: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly in...

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The list of stuff I've read and wanted to blog about has grown... that inventory becomes a post like this.  Here are links to...

Podcast #159 – John Toussaint, MD, on the Institute of Medicine...

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Listen A returning guest for episode #159 is John Toussaint, MD, the CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value and the author of the...

Guest Post: Taking Tragic Healthcare Stories for Granted?

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Mark's Note: Today's guest post is, again, from a great friend of mine and this blog,  Dean Bliss, of the  Iowa Healthcare Collaborative.  Check...

How Do You Find a Lean Healthcare Person?

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Mark's Note: Today's guest post is from a great friend of mine and this blog, Dean Bliss, of the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative.  Check out...

Guest Post: Kaizen’s Test for the Best

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Today's guest post is by Duke Rohe, a Quality Improvement Education Consultant  at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. I know Duke from...

Guest Post: What’s Under Your Road to Improvement?

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Mark's note: Today's guest post is by Dr. Mark Jaben, an emergency medicine physician who has also been working with KaiNexus.   If you drive...

Guest Post: The Tides of Change

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Mark's note: Ankit Patel is a returning guest blogger  and a good friend in the world of Lean and Lean Healthcare. Check out his...