Ryan McCormack

Ryan McCormack
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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 15, 2019

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Healthcare - Creating Value for Patient CMAJ summarizes how to improve the quality of healthcare in Canada.  Nothing new here, which begs the question - what...