Tag: Canada

Talking about Lean Healthcare in Winnipeg – #SDEC13 – and Visiting...

3
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...

3
Listen: 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”

12
"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

1
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

0
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

1
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?

4
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

9
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...

1
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

3
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

2
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

5
This article caught my eye recently: "Canada leads in surgical mishaps." By "leads," the article means they have a high number of mishaps (which...