Mark’s Note: Today’s guest post is, again, from a great friend of mine and this blog, Dean Bliss, of the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative. Check out my podcast with him. By Dean Bliss In my role as a Lean healthcare worker,…
Mark’s Note: Today’s guest post is from a great friend of mine and this blog, Dean Bliss, of the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative. Check out my podcast with him. By Dean Bliss As someone who’s been doing Lean in healthcare for…
As we study the processes we use to do our work, we see opportunities that we may not have even considered before we learned about the Toyota Production System and Lean. At St. Luke’s Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, we…
By Dean Bliss: One of the big challenges we have as Lean people is to get beyond presentations, classes, and posters, and get to the real work done by the real workers. At our hospital system, we’re learning a technique…
Mark’s note: Dean told me about his involvement in this event and I asked him to share a bit about it here: By Dean Bliss: Those of us outside manufacturing face challenges in bringing the Lean philosophy to our industries.…
By Dean Bliss I recently attended Perfecting Patient Care University, a 4-day training event that teaches Lean in healthcare. The University is a product of the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI), which has been around since the late 1990’s, was…
Episode #46 is a chat with a good friend of the Lean Blog, Dean Bliss, a Lean Improvement Specialist with the Iowa Health System. Like myself, Dean made a transition in from manufacturing into health care a few years back,…
Review By Dean Bliss (bio below): Name of the Book: Lean For Dummies Authors: Natalie J. Sayer and Bruce Williams Publication date: 2007 Book description: What’s the key message? Lean for Dummies, not unlike others in the “Dummies” series, is…
