Running a hospital: MICUs go Lean: Result = Happiness In lieu of a blog post today, I’m leaving you with a recent post on Paul Levy’s “Running a Hospital” blog about Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. You can see pictures and…
Ah, what a day yesterday. You’d think getting from Boston to Philadelphia would be easy. I’m here, teaching my “Key Concepts of Lean in Healthcare” workshop for the first time for LEI. I got to Logan a little before 1…
Not to rehash the whole discussion, but I wanted to point out Tuesday’s blog post about lean certifications… and the fascinating string of comments that dragged on all week. Over 40 reader comments, I’m pretty sure that’s a record. The…
While in Boston, I’m getting the chance to sit in on some sessions of an MIT Seminar in Healthcare Systems Innovation. Today, the session that focused a lot of Lean as a means to improve quality and cost. Lean is…
Books – One Injury, 10 Countries – A Journey in Health Care – Review – NYTimes.com I think this book,The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, will go into the “to read” queue.…
Michael Lewis on A.I.G. | vanityfair.com I’ve been a big fan of Michael Lewis and his writing since reading “Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game” years ago. Great book and my first introduction to the Red Sox’s great…
I’m a big Mike Judge fan, dating back to “Office Space” (OK, and back to Beavis and Butthead, even, I’ll admit). His sort of “sequel” to Office Space, “Extract,” is set in a factory. We don’t get too many movies…
From Lehman’s Wreckage, New Lives – WSJ.com: Disgraced Lehman CEO Dick Fuld says in this WSJ piece: “‘I spent too much time out of the office with clients and trusted other people to manage the risk,’ he told employees of…
If you had been following Scott McDuffee’s weekly “Lean Leap to Healthcare” posts that documented his attempts to transition from “lean manufacturing” into “lean healthcare,” you might wonder where he went. I’m hoping Scott will do another “close the loop”…
Mark’s note: I’m happy to introduce a new guest blogger, Liz Guthridge. She is very active on Twitter and does a lot to educate people about Lean in area we could probably all (myself included!) use some help in –…
This blog post started as a parenthetical comment about cycle time in my last blog post from this morning. But the parenthetical grew out of control and I thought it would only confuse things in that post. So, hopefully, it’s…
Sunday, I read this New York Times article about Apple’s “App Store” for the iPhone and iPod Touch (I’ve been a pretty happy iPhone user for the past three months after switching over from BlackBerry). I’m going to try to…
