Tag: Healthcare

This week is National Patient Safety Awareness Week. See my thoughts on this from 2012. Every week should be National Patient Safety IMPROVEMENT Week,...

As National Patient Safety Awareness Week continues, thanks go to Graham Foster for sending me this article from the UK: Most NHS staff deem care...

Joining me for episode #195 is my friend Steve Montague from LifeWings. Steve and I met initially through our shared interest in Lean and,...

I hope you'll consider coming to the 5th annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, being held in Los Angeles, June 4th and 5th, 2014. The...

tl;dr: In this post, Mark examines the concepts of "Flow," "Push," and "Pull" within the context of hospital operations. Drawing from Lean principles, he...

Here is another question emailed to me by a reader, so I'm answering it here (with the reader's permission and removing any identifying details): The...

Along my Lean journey, I learned an expression about the role of leaders and I shared this in my first book Lean Hospitals. Last year, this...

Hat tip to Paul Levy for sharing this video originally in his blog post. Here is the video (you just have to watch the first...

Some of you might have seen it, but I wrote a piece for the LinkedIn Influencers series about how the "Lean Manufacturing" principles are...

I'm a bit of a counter-culturalist when it comes to the hype about Super Bowl commercials being entertainment and being something we "have to...

I was asked a question by a Twitter follower over the weekend: "What are the pros & cons of using direct observations in hospital environment...

If you have to add a warning or instruction label to something that should be obvious in its use, then the item is probably...