Tag: Healthcare

“It’s Gotten Political” in Saskatchewan Lean Healthcare. Of Course.

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After some supporters of the Saskatchewan Lean healthcare efforts reached out to me, I've been trying to follow everything that's being said and written...

Podcast #196 – Jim Huntzinger, What is TWI (Training Within Industry)?

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Listen My guest for episode 196 is Jim Huntzinger, founder of Lean Frontiers. Today, we're talking about the Training Within Industry methodology and his new...

Maintaining a Hospital’s Level of Service After Layoffs

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Thanks to a Google News Alert email, I get news stories (on a daily basis) about hospital layoffs around the country. Many of the articles...

Some People Who Are Making a Difference for Patient Safety

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

Happy Talk Headlines vs. Sad Realities to Fix in Healthcare

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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...

Podcast #195 – Steve Montague, Lean + TeamSTEPPS for Patient Safety

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

Video on this June’s Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit

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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...

Unraveling the Mystery of Flow, Push, and Pull in Hospital Operations...

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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...

Reader Question: Determining & Meeting Hospital Department Demand

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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...

“You get what you expect and you deserve what you tolerate.”

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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...

Weekend Fun: Lean in a British Hospital Soap Opera

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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...

Preaching to the Choir: Lean Works Everywhere

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