Tag: Doctor

DailyKaizen » What the patient is willing to pay forHow about this for a circular (almost) network of blogs? I'm linking to...

WSJ Article: Faltering Family M.D.s Get Technology Lifeline While I was skeptical of Intel's planned tablet PC for nurses, I'm much more positive in my...

Business Week Article Here's a good story about how some doctors offices are trying to reduce backlogs and appointment delays, by adopting lean and operations...

... and the system sucks!" That was the final line of a recent episode of ER that we just watched last night (thanks to the...

Healthcare Efficiency: Lean and MeanHere is a short blog piece on the American Society for Quality website, written by a doctor. It's positive...

Ark. Hospital, Surgeon Sued For Performing Unnecessary Heart Surgeries When I teach lean overview training in healthcare settings, it's often tough to find examples of...

One of the core ideas of the Toyota Production System is the recognition that people are indeed human and are therefore fallible (part of...

I don't think I'm smart enough to figure out the root cause of this healthcare dysfunction. I went to the dentist this morning...

MedQIC - Patient-Centered Care Supported by an EHR The link above (and this audio-video presentation with similar content) tell an amazing story of a private...

theledger.comTalk about not learning from your mistakes. There are so many simple ways of error proofing surgery, including having procedures in place to...

Serious errors by doctor, nurse reported at St. Mary's Medical CenterThis kind of article is published far too often, but this statistic is alarming:"Doctors...

WSJ.com - The Doctor's Office (free feature):"Most medical errors in the doctor's office are process errors. These result from communication problems, office administration problems,...