Ryan McCormack
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...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: October 12, 2018
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patient
CMAJ summarizes how to improve the quality of healthcare in Canada. Nothing new here, which begs the question - what...