Tag: Canada
Talking about Lean Healthcare in Winnipeg – #SDEC13 – and Visiting...
Thanks to the organizing sponsor Protegra and other sponsors, including my friends at LeanKit, for having me give a keynote talk about the Software...
Podcast #185 – Karen Dunn Skinner & David Skinner on Lean...
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My guests for episode #185 are Karen Dunn Skinner and David Skinner and our topic, for the first time on the Podcast, is Lean...
A Lean Guy Watches CBC’s “Rate My Hospital”
"Approximately 8 to 10% of the individuals who walk through our doors are being hurt by us," says David Musyj, CEO of Windsor Regional...
Lean Healthcare Animation from British Columbia
Kevin, from BC, shared this video with me about Lean healthcare. It's only 2.5 minutes long and it has a fun visual style.
I'll give...
Patient Participation in Lean Renews Her Faith in Health Care
Here is a nice story that's been in my blog's "to write about" inventory since late October: "Participation in Lean events has renewed my...
CBC on Lean in Saskatchewan Hospitals
I've been to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan before -- in February. It was a very cold, snowy place, to say the least! But, there are many...
Looking at Medical Mistakes – Learning and Preventing or Repeating?
Working in healthcare, it's hard not finding stories about preventable errors. I keep hearing stories from friends and family - such as my relative...
Lean at the Peterborough (Ontario) Regional Medical Centre
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...
Stuff I’m Reading, May 7, 2012: Nurses, Blame, Government, Apple in...
Here are links to some more articles I've read recently that might be of interest on a number of Lean related topics:
Twin boys die...
Stuff I’m Reading, April 19 – Toussaint, Saskatchewan, & Apologies
Here are links to some more articles I've read recently that might be of interest during my blog break (somewhat of a break):
John Toussaint's...
A Good Lean Healthcare Journal Article with a Puzzling Title
Thanks to the readers who sent this article my way and thanks to the authors for mentioning and citing my book, Lean Hospitals. The...
One Problem with Healthcare Data
This article caught my eye recently: "Canada leads in surgical mishaps." By "leads," the article means they have a high number of mishaps (which...