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…