Tag: Healthcare

Joining me for episode #195 is my friend Steve Montague from LifeWings. Steve and I met initially through our shared interest in Lean and,...

I hope you'll consider coming to the 5th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, being held in Los Angeles, June 4th and 5th, 2014. The...

tl;dr: In this post, Mark examines the concepts of "Flow," "Push," and "Pull" within the context of hospital operations. Drawing from Lean principles, he...

Here is another question emailed to me by a reader, so I'm answering it here (with the reader's permission and removing any identifying details): The...

Along my Lean journey, I learned an expression about the role of leaders and I shared this in my first book Lean Hospitals. Last year, this...

Hat tip to Paul Levy for sharing this video originally in his blog post. Here is the video (you just have to watch the first...

Some of you might have seen it, but I wrote a piece for the LinkedIn Influencers series about how the "Lean Manufacturing" principles are...

I'm a bit of a counter-culturalist when it comes to the hype about Super Bowl commercials being entertainment and being something we "have to...

I was asked a question by a Twitter follower over the weekend: "What are the pros & cons of using direct observations in hospital environment...

If you have to add a warning or instruction label to something that should be obvious in its use, then the item is probably...

When I started blogging here in 2005, I was still about six months away from my transition from "lean manufacturing" to "lean healthcare." It...

Joining me for podcast #192 is John Torinus, author of the excellent book, The Company That Solved Health Care: How Serigraph Dramatically Reduced Skyrocketing...