Tag: Healthcare
Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 15, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Daily safety huddles are simple, inexpensive, and effective methods to raise and escalate patient safety risks. Start your safety...
Everyday Innovators: Empowering Healthcare Teams at UMass, with CEO Dr. Eric...
My guest today for Episode #331 is Eric W. Dickson, MD, MHCM, FACEP, a Professor of Emergency Medicine at UMass Medical School and Chief...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 1, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Why do we have to wake up patients to take vital signs every 4 hours if they are stable? ...
Lean Should be the Solution to Hospital Overwork or Understaffing
The first part of this post is a pretty long introduction before sharing quotes and views from an article that raises concerns about Lean...
Podcast #330 – Christoph Roser, His Grand Tour of Japanese Automakers
Joining me today for Episode #330 of the podcast is Christoph Roser, a professor of production management at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences...
A Patient’s Perspective: Hospital Surveys Miss the Mark
Mark's note: Mike Sporer has commented a few times on blog posts and I invited him to write this guest post after we exchanged...
Podcast #329 – Mike Eisenberg, The Film “To Err is Human”...
Joining me today for Episode #329 of the podcast is Mike Eisenberg, the director, editor, and producer of the film "To Err is Human," a...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: January 18, 2019
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Too often, patient involvement in design and research is tokenist or "tick-box", and requires burdensome processes for participation. To truly design...
“We Have Gotten Too Far From our People and the Core...
Mark's Note: Today's post is written by Ken Segel, the managing director of Value Capture, LLC. This is the first of what I hope...
Podcast #328 – Bette Gardner and Jeff Heil, Friday Night at...
My guests for Episode #328 are Bette Gardner and Jeff Heil, of the company Breakthrough Learning. Bette is the creator of a fantastic simulation...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: Best of 2018
Hi All - here's a collection of the most read Mixtape links from 2018. I compiled the links with the greatest number of viewers and...
Operational Excellence Mixtape: December 21, 2018
Mark's Note: I've known Ryan McCormack for many years now, thanks to his previous work in Lean healthcare and his attendance at Lean Healthcare...