Tag: Healthcare

Guest Post: Weekend Fun – The Post That Goes PING!

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Mark's note: Today's guest post is by Brian Buck, a fellow lean healthcare  practitioner  who regularly blogs at "Improve With Me." Following my tendency...

Podcast #158 – Art Byrne, Former CEO of Wiremold on The...

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My guest for podcast #158 is Art Byrne, author of the new book The Lean Turnaround: How Business Leaders Use Lean Principles to Create...

Notes from the 2012 Northeast Shingo Prize Conference, Day One

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Yesterday was an outstanding day at the Northeast Shingo Prize Conference in Worcester, Massachusetts - my first time attending and speaking at this event....

Stuff I’m Reading: September 21, 2012

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

Brilliant LEGO Visualization of Healthcare Flow (or Lack Thereof)

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Thanks go to Hakan Forss, from Sweden, who sent me a link to an article he wrote about Lean, waste, and patient flow. He...

Improving “Door to Balloon” Times and Patient Care – in Some...

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Recently, the Wall Street Journal put some focus on the issue of so-called "door to balloon" times in our hospitals. "Door to balloon" is...

More Improvement Requires Less “Change Management”?

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As I worked on co-authoring  Healthcare Kaizen, I dove deeper into my study of "kaizen" practices and mindsets, revisiting many core books on kaizen...

My Article: “Lean as an Alternative to Mass Layoffs in Healthcare”

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Almost two years ago, I wrote an article for FierceHealthcare.com called "How lean management helped hospitals avoid layoffs." Here in 2012, I see headlines daily...

Reader Question: Lean Healthcare Conferences I Like

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It's a double reader letter day... I was asked, by a healthcare professional, about where she could find Lean Healthcare conferences. I'll share my list...

Reader Question: Getting Clinical Education to Transition into Healthcare?

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I received a question from a reader, which I'm sharing and posing here (with the reader's permission and removing identifying information). The question: Having only a...

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...