2008 Annual Report: Reducing Waste I had a great visit with Group Health in Seattle on Monday, they are doing some great work with Lean in improving primary care and their insurance office operations. You might remember my podcast (from…
A question came in from a blog reader — simple question with no simple or easy answers: Who are the Lean Thinking CEOs? My first thought is Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, for his famous customer obsession and belief in long-term thinking…
A reminder about two upcoming events for the Lean Healthcare community: MIT Professional Education – Short Programs: MIT will be holding three short courses on campus this July focused on various lean concepts geared towards busy professionals (Lean Academy ®…
Lean Leap to Health Care #8 (click for Part #7) by Scott McDuffee “When a baby is born, a pleasant chime can be heard throughout the hospital and smiles come across the faces of all who hear.” Now dated, I…
I blogged earlier about the Obama administration’s announcement that the healthcare industry is promising $2 Trillion in savings (reduced cost increases) over the next 10 years. Hooray, we set a goal. The announcements were light on how to do this……
Health-Care Providers Pledge to Try to Curb Costs – WSJ.com Industry reps offer $2 trillion in health savings You’ve likely seen headlines today about a meeting at the White House (ah, more meetings!) where the health care industry has agreed…
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…
Mark’s note: Dean told me about his involvement in this event and I asked him to share a bit about it here: By Dean Bliss: Those of us outside manufacturing face challenges in bringing the Lean philosophy to our industries.…
Hospitals See Benefits of Lean and Six Sigma Regular readers know I often write about what I termed “L.A.M.E.” — Lean as Misguidedly Executed. The ASQ (American Society for Quality) survey that I linked to at the top probably just…
Ah, summits. I once watched Coach Pat Summitt’s Tennessee Lady Volunteers take a 35 to 2 lead against my Northwestern Wildcats in the first few minutes of an NCAA basketball tournament game. That was too big of a deficit to…
