Here's the latest installment of “Key Tweets,” a post that summarizes some of my tweets (or retweets) from the week. Follow me @MarkGraban. See the previous installments here.
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#Lean instead? "Ontario hospitals are being forced to lay off nurses" because budgets have been frozen for 3 years http://t.co/Ig0mk03VpC
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 23, 2015
#1 best seller, Amazon healthcare admin category: #Lean Hospitals http://t.co/xz9SvRcQK4 pic.twitter.com/cV4dzVZFzu
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 23, 2015
Every organization has the potential to engage every employee in ongoing continuous improvement. It's just very untapped potential.
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 23, 2015
Why does #Lean & #Kaizen matter in healthcare? Fewer patients getting annoyed or hurt, fewer employees crying at the end of the day.
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 23, 2015
If Six Sigma is good (and domain is taken), why not seven sigma? I'm surprised you could buy this. #UnlikelyDomains pic.twitter.com/wadqWapo9I
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 24, 2015
A Detroit publication should know #Lean is not just low inventory… How Faurecia made over a former Visteon plant http://t.co/7YIlSfRfwQ
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 24, 2015
"study found no relationship between the # of reported medication incidents and 'actual' rate of errors" http://t.co/MgtrHq3lI6
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 24, 2015
"looks like you have a lot of Lean props, like A3’s & huddle boards & color-coding, but I don’t see much happening.” http://t.co/egCDgDMzUo
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 24, 2015
I guess their processes weren't that air tight then. Toddler served alcohol because of 'human error,' restaurant says http://t.co/GzTkbfDdL4
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 24, 2015
Written by a hospital CEO: STEVE POPKIN: Hospitals can learn from auto manufacturing – Press Enterprise http://t.co/WTGSXDm1O8 #Lean
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 24, 2015
"1,000 people a day experience a preventable drug mistake" http://t.co/JZ05KYpwvm #patientsafety
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 24, 2015
"To err is human; to cover up is unforgivable; and to fail to learn is inexcusable." Sir Liam Donaldson #Failure2015 @CAHSPR
— Diane Finegood (@DTFinegood) March 24, 2015
Register to receive free PDF 1st chapters of @HCkaizen books: http://t.co/0SPRywJtSX #Healthcare #Kaizen #Lean pic.twitter.com/9YGrMwkAlF
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 24, 2015
Webinar: How To Spread Continuous Improvement — April 14 at 1p EDT http://t.co/aOJBHXwQx4 #lean #kaizen w @GregHJacobson & @MarkGraban
— KaiNexus (@KaiNexus) March 25, 2015
"Thank you for putting this together. This is what people should be doing instead of going to conferences." http://t.co/KrAnJ7HMuQ #lean
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 25, 2015
"29% of people hospitalized experience at least one medical error" http://t.co/JZ05KYpwvm #patientsafety
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 25, 2015
"The hand sanitizer outside his room was empty," she said [about the hospital] http://t.co/JZ05KYpwvm #patientsafety
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 25, 2015
Hospitals don't want "assembly line medicine." Fair enough, but most manufacturing isn't "assembly line manufacturing," either. #Lean
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 25, 2015
Shouldn't be an earth shattering discovery that reducing length of stay increases capacity for more patients. http://t.co/d4HrR5rupv #Lean
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 25, 2015
#Lean "forced our service to [improve] rounds in a way that could better meet patients’ needs & requirements. http://t.co/d4HrR5rupv
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 25, 2015
This "Lean" and zero-based budgeting have nothing to do with Toyota #Lean pic.twitter.com/jj0LLk3WMO
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 26, 2015
Hospitals' uncompensated care costs fell by $7.4B last year http://t.co/3BfFqYtekp
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 26, 2015
This MD doesn't think the current state of healthcare is unsafe? Sorry if that reality hurts his feelings. pic.twitter.com/K4xdUL7iaO
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 26, 2015
What Quality Measures Should Be Used to Evaluate Health-Care Providers? – WSJ http://t.co/nM9UMD2kwN
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 26, 2015
Our Recommended Continuous Improvement Books http://t.co/qmbbrWALpq #lean #kaizen pic.twitter.com/0ANg82Au95
— KaiNexus (@KaiNexus) March 26, 2015
The Germanwings disaster illustrates a horrific example of how one countermeasure can cause new risks or problems…
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 26, 2015
I liked a @YouTube video from @tcrbob http://t.co/6cyh4H4xcb Garrison Bros. (Texas Country Reporter)
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 26, 2015
How to find opportunities for improvement (with video with @MarkGraban) http://t.co/htJIbTq6uH pic.twitter.com/Wb7vjXcahw
— KaiNexus (@KaiNexus) March 27, 2015
New Study Shows Financial Benefits of Improving #PatientSafety ($108 million for a hospital over 3 years) http://t.co/3WJKf4GUdM
— Mark Graban (@MarkGraban) March 27, 2015
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