As I had alluded to the other day, there was a huge investigative piece that ran across the country Sunday in the Hearst Newspapers. The main URL for the series is www.DeadByMistake.com. You can read all of the articles at…
TL;DR — Healthcare Quality & Patient Safety by the NumbersPreventable medical errors remain one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Research suggests hundreds of thousands of patients die each year from avoidable harm, while millions more are injured due…
A clear vision for better health care – The Globe and Mail This is an article about Lean improvements in the British Columbia health system, where the physicians have been taught to: Identify and purge waste, and stop doing things…
Leading Lean: A Canadian Healthcare Leader’s Guide :: Vol. 12 No. 3 2009 :: Healthcare Quarterly :: Longwoods Publishing Today, I’ll share a link I’ve been wanting to post for a few weeks now, see the link above. It’s an…
Op-Ed Contributor – Health Care’s Infectious Losses – NYTimes.com FINALLY, a major contribution to the discussion about how we need to improve the quality of care delivery. That’s how we are truly going to bring costs down – by improving…
Toyota Is Tightening Its Belt – NYTimes.com The words don’t appear directly in the article, but the RSS blurb for this article (repeated in many “Tweets” and RSS feed news sources) reads: “Toyota Tightens Its Belt – In a soft…
Taking the Wheel as Toyota Skids – NYTimes.com Toyota’s Cost Cutting Plan to Include Buyouts for Factory Workers Toyota famously has avoided layoffs of permanent employees since 1950 and they’ve also taken extraordinary measures to avoid them in recent downtimes.…
Through my promotional partner, RevResponse, I am able to offer a number of free white papers. Registering for these white papers brings referral revenue to the Lean Blog, to make that relationship clear. Many of these papers are limited to…
FT.com / Home UK / UK – Oil price forces P&G to rethink its distribution OK, I’m catching up on an old post since I saw a very similar story in the NY Times yesterday. First the FT story: There’s…
NHS: 60,000 medication blunders in 18 months – Health News, Health & Wellbeing – The Independent Trust me, I’m not picking on the NHS. There’s a lot of good things happening here with Lean and I’ll blog about some of…
Follow Royal’s example on waiting lists, hospitals told – Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk Nice story from here in the UK (where I am right now), about an NHS hospital in Liverpool reducing surgery patient backlogs and delays through Lean. From the…
The Whig Standard – Ontario, CA I’m always curious when I see an article like this in the news about the late Dr. W. Edwards Deming. The article, from Kingston Ontario, Canada, doesn’t reference any local companies. What prompted the…
