Operational Excellence Mixtape: March 13, 2020
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Running controlled experiments for evaluating interventions…
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Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 28, 2020
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
Developing a culture of patient safety requires the ability…
Operational Excellence Mixtape: February 14, 2020
Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients
"We have a good people in a bad system". Here's an …
Episode #12 of the “Lean Whiskey” Podcast: Canadian Whiskey, the Ups…
Mark Graban and Ryan McCormack
In Episode 12 of Lean Whiskey, Mark Graban is back and he's joined by a friend…
Podcast #333 – Jean-Marc Legentil and Marc-Olivier Legentil, The Toyota Kata…
Marc-Olivier and Jean-Marc at KataCon 5 this week
My guests for Episode #333 are Jean-Marc Legentil and…
“ER wait times down, but only slightly” or ER wait times are virtually…
This article was sent by a friend and blog reader from Winnipeg the other day:
"ER wait times down, but only…
Podcast #307 – Andre DeMerchant, “You Can’t Cut Your Way to…
Joining me for Episode #307 of the podcast is my friend Andre DeMerchant, the President of DeMerchant Healthcare…
How NOT to Improve Patient Flow: Laws, Targets, Blame, and Threats
Let's start by stating the obvious: it sucks to wait 24 hours or more on a stretcher in an emergency department…
My Webinar Recording: Standardize What Makes Sense… Then Engage Everybody in…
Today at 3 PM, I'm doing a webinar at the invitation of the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council, as part of…
Congratulations on Reducing Waiting Times, But Lean Isn’t Just About Flow or…
I'm always happy to see success stories where healthcare organizations solve problems that matter through Lean…
Podcast #232 – Remembering Dr. Michel Tétrault
Today's podcast is presented with a heavy heart, after the recent passing of my friend Dr. Michel Téatrault, the…
What’s a Kanban System? This Video From Saskatchewan Provides a Great…
Today, I'm sharing a 10-minute video that was shared by the Five Hills Health Region within the Saskatchewan health…
Must Listen: CBC Radio Piece on #Lean in Ontario, ThedaCare, and Saskatchewan
I was thankful to find this CBC Radio news story / podcast from the program "White Coat Black Art," hosted by Dr.…
“Healthy Debate” About Lean in Healthcare & Emergency Departments
I was recently interviewed by one of the reporters who put together this web article in Canada:
"From the…
What They’re Saying Now about Lean Healthcare in Saskatchewan
There have been plenty of headlines and updates since I first blogged about the controversy over Lean healthcare in…
Good Questions, But With Some Misunderstandings about Lean Healthcare
In 2009, I wrote about a nurses' union in New Brunswick that supported Lean because they realized this methodology…
More on Lean in Saskatchewan
Since the healthcare improvement work I do is apolitical and non-partisan, I'm generally not one to butt into the…
“It’s Gotten Political” in Saskatchewan Lean Healthcare. Of…
After some supporters of the Saskatchewan Lean healthcare efforts reached out to me, I've been trying to…