Tag: Healthcare

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: April 19, 2024

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Bring Me to Speak at Your Health System’s Quarterly Leadership Forum

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I recently spoke and facilitated at a health system's quarterly leadership forum event on the topic of "Psychological Safety as a Pre-Condition for Continuous...

Instead of Urging Your Employees to Be Brave, Help Them Feel...

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It's 9 p.m. in an operating room, just before the last procedure of a long day that had been full of delays. A nurse...

Signs Are Not Mistake-Proofing: Hospital Hallways Edition

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As I posted recently on LinkedIn, here are some photos and a story from years ago. Signs are not mistake-proofing. Signs are not adequate process...

Looking Ahead to Greg Jacobson’s Keynote at the HSPI Conference

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As a previous keynote speaker at this event, and as a friend and colleague of KaiNexus CEO Dr. Greg Jacobson, I was very excited...

Improving MRI Safety for Patients and Staff: Tobias Gilk

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for Episode #497 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Tobias Gilk, the founder...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 26, 2024

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Beyond Blame: How Punishing Healthcare Workers Fails to Prevent Medication Errors

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In healthcare, leaders saying "we'll hold them accountable" too often means, in reality, "we'll punish individuals for mistakes that have many systemic causes." To the...

Mistakes are Proof that You’re Trying? A Situational Analysis

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We can all make mistakes, so I advocate for learning from mistakes through my book, podcast, and speaking. I do my best to learn...

Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 12, 2024

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Habits, Continuous Improvement, and the Latest at KaiNexus: Greg Jacobson

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Scroll down for how to subscribe, transcript, and more My guest for this bonus episode of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast is Gregory H. Jacobson,...

Journal Article Suggests Efficacy of Lean in U.S. Public Hospitals; Will...

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tl;dr summary: A journal article evidences Lean's effectiveness in healthcare, challenging skeptics. It finds that Lean adoption in U.S. public hospitals is linked to...