Tag: Healthcare

... and the system sucks!" That was the final line of a recent episode of ER that we just watched last night (thanks to the...

Healthcare Efficiency: Lean and MeanHere is a short blog piece on the American Society for Quality website, written by a doctor. It's positive...

Ark. Hospital, Surgeon Sued For Performing Unnecessary Heart Surgeries When I teach lean overview training in healthcare settings, it's often tough to find examples of...

This has always been a problem in the manufacturing world -- companies selecting equipment that is "biggest, fastest, and cheapest" (or at least "cheapest"...

I saw this last week when doing some lean assessment work with a hospital Operating Room and support services. One of the main...

STLtoday - News - Science & MedicineThis was sent to me by blog reader Joe. He was appalled to read about this and...

I was able to tour a hospital laboratory that had already gone through the lean process.One metric was a daily tally of "sticks per...

Drug makers must think about different packaging | IndyStar.comHere's a picture of the two drugs that were mixed up when the three babies were...

This is an incredibly sad, and completely preventable, situation. Three babies are dead, and three more injured, because the wrong drug was administered...

Squeezing the fat from health care - baltimoresun.comHere is another nice overview of some of the results seen from the application of Lean Thinking...

Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing thoughts | Gemba Panta ReiThanks to the Gemba blog. The article he linked to talks about the need to...

Oregon Health Forum - Events Thanks to Andrea for this. Who is Virginia Mason and why does she have a production system? No, it's a...