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Recently, I hosted this… COVID-19 Quiz Time: Test Your Knowledge and Learn Even More March 24 from 1:00 – 2:00 ET Previously, we’ve hosted “Ask Us Anything” sessions where people submitted questions to doctors about coronavirus and COVID-19. In this…
TL;DR: In a crisis, what leaders do matters more than what they say–and inconsistency at the top quietly undermines trust, safety, and compliance. I believe that leaders need to lead by example. This was true in my “Lean manufacturing” days…
Being in work from home mode, I alternate from thinking and writing about the current crisis and trying to figure out how to be helpful to people remotely. One idea is that I’d like to facilitate an online book study…
Episode #361 of the podcast is admittedly not about Lean, but it’s an important topic that I think needs to be shared in these times. I’m sharing audio that came from a KaiNexus webinar yesterday that we called “Ask Docs…
I had a phone conversation yesterday with an emergency medicine physician after her shift at an unnamed hospital in an undisclosed state. She had a number of frustrations to share and she doesn’t really have an outlet (and doesn’t want…
Today, I’m sharing a preview (in podcast and transcript form) of a webinar that Steve Kane, from Gemba Academy, will presenting on April 8th as part of the KaiNexus webinar series. Coaching Strategies for Leaders It’s free and I hope…
I’ve been thinking a lot about hospitals and how they’re preparing for the expected tsunami of Covid-19 patients who will need ICU beds and ventilators (when it’s expected that there won’t be enough of either). There have also been recent…
See all of Greg’s email updates on this page Greg Jacobson, MD is a practicing emergency room physician. He’s a friend and trusted colleague and he’s not prone to overreaction and exaggeration. We just got off the phone and his…
Returning for Episode #360 of the podcast is Leah Binder, the president and CEO of Leapfrog Group. We last talked four years ago in Episode #240 about the patient safety crisis and efforts to improve. Today, we’ll talk about hospitals’…
Healthcare – Creating Value for Patients Running controlled experiments for evaluating interventions in healthcare is usually infeasible – the presentation of patients can be random and most factors are impossible to control. However, experimenters can benefit from the quasi-random assignment…
Listen: In Episode 14 of Lean Whiskey, Mark Graban and Jamie Flinchbaugh finish off another weekend by catching up, drinking whiskey, and talking shop. In whiskey, we explore the idea of adding water to your whiskey. Rather than take the…
I realize there’s a lot of serious stuff going on in the world… and that’s weighing on my mind a ton, which is one reason I haven’t been blogging quite as much recently. But, if you’ll forgive the indulgence, I’m…
