Ryan McCormack
Ryan is an operational excellence professional with over 18 years experience practicing continuous improvement in healthcare, insurance, food manufacturing, and aerospace. He is an avid student of the application of Lean principles in work and life to create measurably better value.
Operational Excellence Mixtape: March 29, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
The design of payment and reimbursement systems in healthcare is a key driver of value. In Canada, it is not uncommon...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: March 15, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
The new venture between Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase to fix healthcare is called "Haven" according to a new press...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: March 1, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Ontario is betting big on an untested hypothesis of reorganizing and consolidating healthcare operations and budgets predicting it will result...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 15, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Daily safety huddles are simple, inexpensive, and effective methods to raise and escalate patient safety risks. Start your safety...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 1, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Why do we have to wake up patients to take vital signs every 4 hours if they are stable? ...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 18, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Too often, patient involvement in design and research is tokenist or "tick-box", and requires burdensome processes for participation. To truly design...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: Best of 2018
Hi All - here's a collection of the most read Mixtape links from 2018. I compiled the links with the greatest number of viewers and...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 21, 2018
Mark's Note: I've known Ryan McCormack for many years now, thanks to his previous work in Lean healthcare and his attendance at Lean Healthcare...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 7, 2018
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Healthcare is the world's largest cottage industry, as evidenced by the enormous variation in practice. Healthcare practitioners may finally be...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 23, 2018
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Hospitals have been collecting patient complaint data for decades, but leveraging the data for improvement has remained elusive. Some new...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: November 9, 2018
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
The benefits of Electronic healthcare records are a polarizing topic with healthcare providers. Standardization and electronic workflows have their...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 26, 2018
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patient
A lot can be done to optimize flow in hospitals without investing in additional staff and infrastructure by using an...
