We had a great first day at our Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Seattle (with lots of tweets from attendees you can follow along with). The Summit concludes with Day 2 today. One of the plenary presenters was Dr. Michel…
The Winnipeg Free Press has an article about their local St. Boniface Hospital, a member of the LEI/ThedaCare network I’m involved with called the Healthcare Value Network. About 40 of us from different Network member organizations visited last Thursday and…
I was recently in Toronto and I heard a story on an AM news station that really caught my ear. I have searched on the station’s website and the web, but I can’t find the exact story, but I found…
In an article (“Assembly required: Health care from the Toyota factory floor“) from Canada’s National Post newspaper says Lean healthcare is “taking Canadian healthcare by storm.” The piece leads with some work done by Windsor’s Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital – a…
Being a huge fan of Dr. W. Edwards Deming, especially so some 17 years after his death, I like any article that concludes with this line: “The lesson of the Toyota recalls is not that Mr. Deming’s Japanese model is…
TL;DR: The Olympic gold-medal puck was almost lost not because of bad intent, but because the system relied on people remembering under chaotic conditions. The real lesson is timeless: leaders must design processes that account for human fallibility instead of…
Lean… and saving green – Materials Management in Healthcare Mag Here’s an article in a healthcare trade publication that features the Lean improvements from two hospitals: LeBonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis (featured in my book, Lean Hospitals, and Kingston General…
telegraphjournal.com – Lean process, big results I’ll write more on this topic of unions and Lean tomorrow, but I wanted to share this story from Canada. The New Brunswick provincial health system is going to start working with the Lean…
Article – How Toyota builds cars Here’s an article from Canada about how Toyota (an automaker) manages to be influential to Bombardier (maker of planes) and St. Joseph’s Hospital in Hamilton, Ontario (a fixer of people). The article, I think,…
Here is a video from Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital (HDGH) in Windsor, Ontario Canada about their Lean effort, the video is part of their main Lean page. The video starts with John Shook talking about the real definition of “Lean” (it’s…
Hospital CEOs manage staff time, inventory to cut costs – USATODAY.com It’s nice to see a major publication covering Lean and, especially, Lean in healthcare. This time, it was USA Today who, again, did a better job than the WSJ…
Toyota to end output at GM jv plant in March: report | Reuters The WSJ reports that Toyota is going to decide by the end of August. Even with sales picking up, this data point doesn’t look good: Toyota’s North…
