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It’s a not-so-regular feature, but it’s time to clean up the Lean Blog Backlog (say that 10 times fast), the stories that I’ve tucked aside but haven’t gotten the full blog post treatment. Come back tomorrow for Part 2 of…
Reminder: I am teaching a two-day introductory workshop called “Key Concepts of Lean in Healthcare.” If you have considered or investigated this workshop, but have not registered, I am interested in your feedback if you would click here for a…
What top-performing EDs do – Hospitals & Health Networks I was really, Really, REALLY puzzled by the first line in this article, that read: “Lean, Six Sigma and Toyota Production System applications have simply not proven sustainable in health care.…
Our returning guest is John S. Toussaint, MD, the CEO emeritus of ThedaCare, and CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value. In the interest of disclosure, he is a partner in our Lean Enterprise Institute efforts to promote Lean…
Ill. hospital execs find savings in Lean methodologies – Modern Healthcare It’s nice to see Modern Healthcare is doing some podcasts, or at least I am just discovering them. I’ve linked to a 5-minute podcast with a CEO and CIO…
As I had alluded to the other day, there was a huge investigative piece that ran across the country Sunday in the Hearst Newspapers. The main URL for the series is www.DeadByMistake.com. You can read all of the articles at…
TL;DR — Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety by the NumbersPreventable medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Research suggests hundreds of thousands of patients die each year from avoidable harm, while millions more are injured due…
LeanBlog Podcast Episode #71 is part two of a conversation with Patrick Anderson, the Executive Director of Chugachmiut, the Tribal consortium created to promote self-determination to the seven Native communities of the Chugach Region. I met Patrick at a Lean…
Hearst Press Release August 09, 2009 This will be developing over the next few days. The Hearst newspaper chain has done a huge expose of the continuing problems with deaths due to preventable errors and infections in hospitals. The website…
Health care’s infectious loss – Video – Business News Short post for today – but an important one. Here’s a great video from CNN last week about preventing patient infections with Lean (or as they called it “inspiration from Toyota”).…
I recently invited questions for Michael Balle, the author of the Shingo Prize winning book The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround. He has a new book (published by LEI, my employer), recently published, called “The Lean Manager.” Here…
There are lots of comments online, blogs, and Twitter about people complaining that Lean at Starbucks is an attempt to turn people into robots. Again, that is the furthest thing from truth. Fine, don’t believe me. Believe a hospital. Some…
