Tag: Healthcare
Reader Question: Lean Healthcare Conferences I Like
It's a double reader letter day... I was asked, by a healthcare professional, about where she could find Lean Healthcare conferences.
I'll share my list...
Reader Question: Getting Clinical Education to Transition into Healthcare?
I received a question from a reader, which I'm sharing and posing here (with the reader's permission and removing identifying information).
The question:
Having only a...
New Two-Day On-Site Workshop Offering: “Kaizen Kickoff”
Last weekend was the start of the college football season (Go 'Cats!) and tonight is the "kickoff" of the NFL season, which (of course)...
Chapter 1 of “Healthcare Kaizen” Available in Spanish
I wish I could attend in person, but I'll be presenting, via recorded video, to a Lean healthcare conference in Spain in September, talking...
Characteristics of Lean Leaders
Ted Stiles is one of the handful of key recruiters I know in the world of Lean healthcare. Disclosure: I recently joined the advisory...
A Kidney Accidentally Trashed – More Questions Than Answers
Many of you have emailed me about this horribly sad story: "Toledo hospital nurse accidentally throws away healthy donor kidney during transplant surgery."
As a...
Videos: Lean in Daily Work at the University of Michigan Health...
If your organization blocks access to YouTube... shame on them. The videos I'm sharing here are two reasons you should insist they open access...
Slides & Recording of My “Healthcare Kaizen” Webinar – “The Suggestion...
Thanks to Karen Martin for hosting yesterday's webinar that I gave based on my book (with Joe Swartz) Healthcare Kaizen. The title was somewhat...
Paul O’Neill Talks ThedaCare, Lean Healthcare on CNBC
Here is about five minutes of video (no longer available, sadly) of Paul O'Neill (former CEO of Alcoa and former Treasury Secretary) talking about...
Stuff I’m Reading: August 15, 2012
Picking up a feature I was doing a few months back, the backlog of stuff I've read and wanted to blog about has grown......
Counting the Ways to Solve the Counting Problem w/ Hospital Supplies
Since moving to San Antonio in May, I'm struck by what a green, pretty city this is. Pictured at left was a day last...
Dr. Berwick’s 1989 Advice on Making Kaizen Happen in Healthcare
Last week, I blogged about the 1989 New England Journal of Medicine article by Dr. Donald M. Berwick, "Continuous Improvement as an Ideal in...