Thought I’d share this here on the blog even though many of you might have gotten an email from Helen Zak at the LEI about this: Dear Mark, No doubt you’ve heard and read a lot about the debate in…
Lean Enterprise Academy Events; Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit 2009 I’m fortunate that I’ll be attending this July summit in London, run by Dan Jones and the UK-based Lean Enterprise Academy. If you’re attending, be sure to let me know so…
It’s once again my pleasure to host the Carnival for John Hunter and his Curious Cat blog. There are many excellent and thought provoking posts from the past month. I hope you’ll discover a new blog or two (or new…
Why ‘Quality’ Care Is Dangerous – WSJ.com Yesterday’s WSJ opinion piece by Dr. Jerome Goopman (author of How Doctors Think) and Pamela Hartzband caught my eye. Thanks to the four or five of you who also emailed me the link…
ThedaCare Improvement System Facilitator, ThedaCare, Inc. jobs in Wisconsin, Wisconsin ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value Looks like ThedaCare is collecting resumes for future hiring as Lean (ThedaCare Improvement System) facilitators. Might be a nice opportunity for those of you in…
Health care fix a joint effort | Postcrescent.com | Appleton Post-Crescent: I’m happy to announce a future podcast with John Toussaint, release date TBD. If you have any questions for him about the Lean efforts at ThedaCare or his new…
I’m happy to announce that I will be speaking at a few events and forums this fall. The firm I work for will also be doing some events in Boston (September) and Dallas (November), so I hope to be able…
Leadership Symposium (Iowa) It sure seems like Iowa gets mentioned here on the blog quite a bit, for lean manufacturing and lean healthcare. John Touissant, of ThedaCare (in Wisconsin), is speaking at an Iowa healthcare symposium April 22 (unfortunately, it…
From the Association for Manufacturing Excellence, of which I’m a proud member. I wish my schedule allowed me to attend this event: LEAN IN HEALTHCARE ON DISPLAY AT AME WORKSHOP FEATURING THEDACARE Neenah, Wisconsin, August 21, 2007 – Those interested…
John Toussaint, M.D. – Profile From the University of Iowa alumni site, here’s a nice Q&A with one of the leading advocates for Lean in healthcare, Dr. John Toussaint, CEO of ThedaCare, which is mentioned often here on the Lean…
Running a hospital: Our Joint Commission Report The headline is my modification of a Deming expression, that management’s job is prediction. Statistical process control was one way of predicting future outcomes of a process (if you have a statistically stable…
According to this article (link has been misplaced), ThedaCare has been modeling the Toyota Production System to implement lean for the last 2 years. There is some explanation of what ThedaCare terms ‘Rapid Improvement Events’ where a cross functional team…
