When I started blogging here in 2005, I was still about six months away from my transition from “lean manufacturing” to “lean healthcare.” It was mind boggling and disturbing to me to learn about the healthcare quality and patient safety…
Here’s an excellent commentary by Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health: “In The Race For ‘Fanciest Hospital In Town,’ Patient Safety Loses Out.” Dr. Jha argues that hospitals glad spend millions of…
Welcome to the landing page for my podcasts with CEOs and former CEOs from various industries. Click here for the most updated list of CEO podcasts, which will be updated automatically over time. Click here for the LeanBlog Podcast…
Listen It’s great to have Dr. John Toussaint back for episode #184 of the podcast (see links to previous episodes below). He is, of course, CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value and the author of two Shingo Award-winning…
Things are underway at the 2013 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. We have 600 attendees from 39 states and 8 countries. I will be tweeting, as will others, at the hashtag #HCsummit13. John Toussaint, MD will be doing his keynote at…
I had a chance to attend the Lean Kanban North America conference this week. It was a different “tribe” to be a part of, as the topics focused on software and IT settings, including agile development, “kanban” project management, and…
Here’s the latest in my “What I’m Reading” series, where I clear out some of the inventory of articles I’ve read, but haven’t blogged about. NY crime lab improves efficiency with ‘Lean Six Sigma’ process It’s great to see Lean…
Producer Clare Crawford-Mason shares behind-the-scenes stories of W. Edwards Deming and the 1980 NBC documentary If Japan Can Do It, Why Can’t We?–and reflects on Deming’s lasting impact on management, healthcare, and leadership. Listen: My guest for episode #167 is…
It’s time again for a regular feature I call “Stuff I’m Reading.” I have too many browser tabs open and my Mac is bogging down (root cause of this?), so it’s time to share some links that I may or…
The dates have been announced for the 4th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. It will be held June 5-6, 2013. Co-hosted by the Lean Enterprise Institute and the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value, this has always been a great event.…
I didn’t have a post yesterday because it was the Labor Day holiday here in the U.S. While I’m not a “worker,” in the sense of an hourly employee or union worker anymore, I still enjoyed the day off with…
Preventable medical mistakes remain one of the most serious challenges in healthcare, yet many hospitals still struggle with learning from medical errors and preventing them from happening again. From emergency departments to pathology labs, the same types of errors continue…
