Tag: Healthcare

New Two-Day On-Site Workshop Offering: “Kaizen Kickoff”

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Last weekend was the start of the college football season (Go 'Cats!) and tonight is the "kickoff" of the NFL season, which (of course)...

Chapter 1 of “Healthcare Kaizen” Available in Spanish

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I wish I could attend in person, but I'll be presenting, via recorded video, to a Lean healthcare conference in Spain in September, talking...

Characteristics of Lean Leaders

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Ted Stiles is one of the handful of key recruiters I know in the world of Lean healthcare.  Disclosure: I recently joined the advisory...

A Kidney Accidentally Trashed – More Questions Than Answers

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Many of you have emailed me about this horribly sad story: "Toledo hospital nurse accidentally throws away healthy donor kidney during transplant surgery." As a...

Videos: Lean in Daily Work at the University of Michigan Health...

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If your organization blocks access to YouTube... shame on them. The videos I'm sharing here are two reasons you should insist they open access...

Slides & Recording of My “Healthcare Kaizen” Webinar – “The Suggestion...

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Thanks to Karen Martin for hosting yesterday's webinar that I gave based on my book (with Joe Swartz)  Healthcare Kaizen. The title was somewhat...

Paul O’Neill Talks ThedaCare, Lean Healthcare on CNBC

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Here is about five minutes of video (no longer available, sadly) of Paul O'Neill (former CEO of Alcoa and former Treasury Secretary) talking about...

Stuff I’m Reading: August 15, 2012

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Picking up a feature I was doing a few months back, the backlog of stuff I've read and wanted to blog about has grown......

Counting the Ways to Solve the Counting Problem w/ Hospital Supplies

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Since moving to San Antonio in May, I'm struck by what a green, pretty city this is. Pictured at left was a day last...

Dr. Berwick’s 1989 Advice on Making Kaizen Happen in Healthcare

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Last week, I blogged about the 1989 New England Journal of Medicine article by Dr. Donald M. Berwick, "Continuous Improvement as an Ideal in...

Dr. John Toussaint Says “Don’t Kill Me!”

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To end the week, here's a piece by our friend John Toussaint, MD, CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, that was published...

Updates on Japan Lean Healthcare Study Trip – November 2012

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I first  blogged about the possibility in March - doing a weeklong study trip to Japan with Lean Healthcare professionals, in partnership with Kaizen...