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I heard a great line from an Emergency Department doc and physician leader yesterday. Talking about his hospital’s Lean efforts, he said, simply: “Data should create light, not heat.” Brilliant. Simply brilliant. What he meant was that data should be…
I was running errands around Boston last Saturday, preparing for our move back to Texas (as my wife finishes her 12 month grad school program). In the course of these errands, I had some thoughts about Lean or related to…
Interesting news from Idaho, where an outside Lean consultant has been named interim CEO of St. Luke’s Magic Valley Medical Center (see “Consultant to fill in as T.F. hospital CEO“). From the article: Mike Reno, a consultant helping St. Luke’s…
I would like to say a sincere “Happy Nurses Week” though, to the nurses who are reading. As I said on Twitter yesterday: Happy Nurses Day! You all deserve systems and processes that allow you to make the most of…
I wanted to post a few updates about some efforts related to the Lean Enterprise Institute: WIHI audio session on lean healthcare today 4 PM with John Toussaint, Steve Spear, and Gary Kaplan The upcoming book “On the Mend“ Our…
I was able to have a chat with Eric Ries yesterday as we were recording some video of him answering some follow up questions from the LEI webinar he did for us last week on Lean Startups (that will be…
Mark’s note: I’m happy to welcome a relatively new friend, Mike Stoecklein, as a guest author here on my Lean Blog. We have shared interests in healthcare improvement and, particularly, in Dr. W. Edwards Deming, with whom Mike had personal…
Something Lean is in the water in Wisconsin, as that state is one of the hotbeds of Lean healthcare. There’s, of course, the ThedaCare story (from Appleton) and the upcoming book about their journey (“On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to…
Saturday morning, as part of my preparation to cook for a brunch gathering (I really enjoy cooking as a hobby, for those who don’t know me), I took a trip to a Boston Whole Foods location. One ingredient I needed…
I’m sitting here on a Sunday morning, drinking a cup of coffee I made at home with bottled water. Why bottled water? Because of a massive water main burst west of Boston – Boston and 30+ other communities currently have…
I saw this on the national cable news two nights ago, the horrifying story of a Denton TX woman whose house was basically destroyed by a bulldozer. Was it a runaway bulldozer? Nope, different type of “accident.” Workers were supposed…
The Winnipeg Free Press has an article about their local St. Boniface Hospital, a member of the LEI/ThedaCare network I’m involved with called the Healthcare Value Network. About 40 of us from different Network member organizations visited last Thursday and…
