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Here are some notes and key points from Day 1 of the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. There are over 500 people here from North America and around the world (including a group, again, of about 40 from different hospitals and…
My guest for episode #150 is Jeffrey M. Lobosky, MD, the author of the book It’s Enough to Make You Sick: The Failure of American Health Care and a Prescription for the Cure. Dr. Lobosky talks about what he thinks…
I had to share this exciting moment with y’all…. I arrived in Minneapolis for the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit and had waiting for me, as promised, 10 “print on demand” copies of Healthcare Kaizen waiting for me! It’s very exciting…
Virginia Mason Medical Center, a world-renowned leader in the application of Lean principles in healthcare, has a new blog: Virginia Mason Blog. They name blogs the way I do, simple and direct :-) One of their first posts highlights a…
Coming this week — blog posts and tweets (follow me or hashtag #HCsummit12) from the 2012 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit on Wednesday and Thursday. If you are going to be there, please say hello!’ Looking back a week… the weekend…
I was interviewed for a weekend public affairs program that aired on multiple radio stations in the Denver area two weekends ago, talking about Lean in healthcare and my upcoming Healthcare Kaizen book. Here is the audio: Thanks for listening!…
Near our old home in the Fort Worth, Texas area was this city park in Southlake. The sign always made me do a double take when driving by… Koalaty Park. WTF? The spelling (which I’m sure is intentional… for some…
I’m really looking forward to next week’s Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Minneapolis. Who else is going? I’ll be blogging about it Wednesday through Friday – and tweeting at the hashtag #HCSummit12. Say hi if you are there or follow…
Listen My guest for episode #149 is Gregory Jacobson, MD, the co-founder and CEO at KaiNexus. We’ll be talking about his early work with Kaizen in emergency medicine settings – how did he get introduced to Kaizen principles and how…
Mark’s note: While I am busy in “moving land” this week, Christina Kach was kind enough to write a review of a book that was sent to me – Adventures in Leanland by Russell Watkins (a free copy was provided…
Being a big fan of what the guys at LeanPub are doing (listen to my podcasts with them here and here), I created a new compilation of sports-related posts from my blog dating back to 2005. The book is not-so-creatively…
TL;DR: In Lean problem solving, the hardest habit to break is jumping to solutions too early. Effective PDCA and A3 thinking require discipline in problem definition, understanding the current state, and resisting blame-driven shortcuts. Organizations that slow down to define…
