Tag: Healthcare

Analyzing the Kaizen Improvements in Our Book “Healthcare Kaizen”

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I went through our new book  Healthcare Kaizen to categorize the different improvement examples in the book... We have, by my count, 124 examples from...

KaiNexus Updates – White Paper and Customer Videos

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I've been busy over the past year working with the startup KaiNexus. Our technology is now being used (or in the process of going...

Healthcare Kaizen: You Mean Everyone Isn’t Doing This?

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I've done a number of radio interviews recently to talk about our soon-to-be-released book Healthcare Kaizen. I haven't posted them all here, but check...

Moving Beyond “Be More Careful”

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Last weekend, I watched a show on the Smithsonian Channel that was an interesting contrast to the CNN show I blogged about yesterday ("A...

A Lean Guy Watches “CNN’s 25 Shocking Medical Mistakes”

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Did anybody else see this show hosted to Elizabeth Cohen on CNN last weekend, titled "25 Shocking Medical Mistakes"? You can see a video...

Weekend Fun: “Medical Records” in Auto Repair vs. Hospitals

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Since many organizations might block The Onion website, I decided to post this in the "weekend fun" category: Quick-Lube Shop Masters Electronic Record Keeping Six...

Lean at the Peterborough (Ontario) Regional Medical Centre

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Ontario's Peterborough Regional Medical Centre is about 18 months into their Lean transformation. They are being featured in a series of four articles in...

Interview with Former ThedaCare Leader Kathryn Correia

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Here's a nice interview with Kathryn Correia, CEO of HealthEast in Minnesota, a former ThedaCare executive: "Lean approach at HealthEast." From the piece: Correia is a...

Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit 2012, Day 2

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Following up on my notes from Day 1, here are some notes and key points from Day 2 of the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit....

Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit 2012, Day 1

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Here are some notes and key points from Day 1 of the Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit. There are over 500 people here from North...

A Lean Guy Listens to NPR – Waste & Problems in...

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Coming this week -- blog posts and tweets (follow me or hashtag  #HCsummit12) from the 2012 Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit on Wednesday and Thursday....

Turning to Lean Management and Kaizen for Safer Healthcare

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I was interviewed for a weekend public affairs program that aired on multiple radio stations in the Denver area two weekends ago, talking about...