Tag: Leadership

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Developing a culture of patient safety requires the ability to raise risks without fear of reprisal.  This post from leanblog.org...

Here is a story that was sent to me by a blog reader, who needs to remain anonymous. I know the blog reader fairly...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients "We have a good people in a bad system".  Here's an excellent interview with Dr. Marty Makary, author of "The...

Thanks to Sara Thompson and Catalysis Inc. for asking me to write a blog post for them. If we can go "Beyond Heroes" (a...

Joining me today for episode #357 is Michael Conroy, M.D., the Chief Medical Officer of Sutter Medical Group in northern California. Mike was previously the...

I think that working to reduce patient harm (to improve patient safety) is one of the most important (and most noble) applications of Lean. Daily...

tl;dr summary: The blog post discusses the importance of reporting and solving problems for patient safety in Japan. It highlights stories from two hospitals...

The theme for the next couple of days on the blog is patient safety and the idea of "psychological safety" for employees or physicians...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Sometimes you just need to get a team together and improve.  Here's a good example of use of A3 thinking to...

The other day, I stumbled across an old article that I remember, as it was published in the Wall Street Journal in 2004. The...

Joining me for episode #354 of the podcast is Kim Hollon, the CEO and President of Signature Healthcare, based in Brockton, Massachusetts. I first met...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients It's been 20 years since To Err is Human, the seminal report from the Institute of Medicine, was released, estimating,...