Lean at UCLA Harbor Medical Center Featured by the BBC
The BBC radio program "The Science Hour" recently aired a program with a segment where an unexpected person (Dr.…
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England
See How a British Psychiatrist is Using LEGO Videos to Explain Lean Healthcare
A collection of creative videos was recently brought to my attention and I'd like to share them here. They are…
Healthcare Headlines in the UK are Mostly Similar to the US
As I wrote about last month, I love newspapers, so I felt like I fit into the culture last week when I spent five…
Cleaning out the Backlog: 3P in the NHS, “Secret” HAI Weapons, MRI…
As I sometimes do, I'm going to close out a bunch of browser tabs (which makes my Mac run faster) and I'll do that…
Throwback Thursday: A Lean Healthcare Conference From 2007
Back in 2007, I had my first opportunity to travel to England, a country I really love visiting. I had the chance…
Guest Post: “Do No Harm” – Patient Safety is Defined by Standard…
Mark's Note: I met today's guest blogger, Gus Lusack, when I was working with a hospital pathology department in…
What’s Up With Neckties in Healthcare?
It's a simple question: what's up with so many men wearing ties in healthcare? Are you / they wearing them because…
Happy Talk Headlines vs. Sad Realities to Fix in Healthcare
As National Patient Safety Awareness Week continues, thanks go to Graham Foster for sending me this article from…
Parallels and Learning Between Aircraft Engine MRO and Human Healthcare
My wife is a leader in a business (not GE) that does aircraft engine "MRO" work - maintenance, repair, and…
Easier to Game the Numbers than Fix the System — in Education and Healthcare
I've cited his book before (including this post with an example from The Office)... Brian Joiner wrote, in…
UK: Nurses Struggle to Get Their Work Done; Dissatisfaction Soars, Quality in…
I recently saw this headline in the London Evening Standard: "Nurses struggle to 'get the job done' due to staff…
Stuff I’m Reading: August 15, 2012
Picking up a feature I was doing a few months back, the backlog of stuff I've read and wanted to blog about has…
Stuff I’m Reading, May 7, 2012: Nurses, Blame, Government, Apple in China
Here are links to some more articles I've read recently that might be of interest on a number of Lean related…
Stuff I’m Reading, April 19 – Toussaint, Saskatchewan, &…
Here are links to some more articles I've read recently that might be of interest during my blog break (somewhat of…
A Lean Guy Reads the Globe and Mail – Shoelaces & Plane Crashes
I was in Canada a few weeks back and two articles from the Globe and Mail newspaper caught my eye - stories from…
Revisiting Taxis, Medical Errors, and Systemic Problems
You might have read my blog post from last week about an unsafe taxi driver and medical errors - Said the Unsafe…
Releasing Time to Care (Lean Nursing) in New Zealand
Here is a nice little (under 2 minutes) news video from New Zealand talking about one hospital (in Auckland) and…
Guest Post: Lean Leaders Conference, Part 2 – To Centralise or…
Mark's note: You may recognize the author of this guest post, Andrew Castle, as a previous contributor and frequent…