My guests for Episode #270 of the podcast are two physicians: Paul DeChant, MD and Diane Shannon, MD. They are co-authors of the recently-released book Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine.
Back in May, I shared the first episode of a podcast that I’m producing for the firm Value Capture… it’s called “Habitual Excellence.” I won’t do a blog post here for each new episode, but I did want to share…
Previous Episodes (Full List): Click to visually browse episodes For easy access to any Podcast, use the forwarding URL: leanblog.org/X where X is the episode number. This text list is from the old version of the podcast’s main blog page.…
Enhancing Workplace Well-being and Patient Care Through Lean Initiatives Joining me for episode #230 is Paul DeChant, MD, MBA to talk about reducing burnout, especially physician burnout, through Lean. Paul (see his bio here) is the former CEO of Sutter Gould Medical Foundation,…
Scroll down for video, how to subscribe, and more My guest for Episode #406 is Dr. Ivan Zakharenkov, he’s a doctor of veterinary medicine and he’s Chief Executive Officer at the company Veterinary Integration Solutions. He goes by Dr. Zak…
Healthcare – Creating Value for Patients It’s been 20 years since To Err is Human, the seminal report from the Institute of Medicine, was released, estimating, to many people’s surprise, that almost 100,000 deaths per year in hospitals could be prevented. …
One book about the late, great W. Edwards Deming that's been on my shelf for a while is The Deming Management Method, which was written by Mary Walton, a journalist who spent some time with Dr. Deming in the 1980s. There's a section that really made me think about Lean over the past few decades (and it might seem familiar to those who use Six Sigma or other methods).
For one last day, I’m at the 8th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Palm Springs, California. See my notes from Day 1 in yesterday’s blog post. Follow on Twitter using the hashtag #HCSummit2017. If you’re here at the event, please…
I’m at the 8th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Palm Springs, California. Follow on Twitter using the hashtag #HCSummit2017. If you’re here at the event, please say hello! I love meeting blog readers and podcast listeners. I’ll be adding…
As is often the case, I have too many open browser tabs full of articles that I was going to potentially blog about. This slows down my Mac (thanks, Chrome!). So, it’s time for me to clear out my backlog and…
I was very saddened earlier to receive an email from an employee of a great leader, Dr. Michel Tétreault, informing me that he had passed away. Michel was, since 2005, the CEO of St. Boniface General Hospital in Winnipeg.
Blogs or podcasts about lean healthcare or those that cover lean topics at least some of the time: Lean Blog – Healthcare Posts (Mark Graban) Lean Vets (Chip Ponsford, DVM and Mark Graban) Virginia Mason Blog (Virginia Mason Medical Center) Catalysis…