The Management Improvement Carnival was started by my friend and fellow LeanDaily blogger John Hunter of the Curious Cat Management Improvement blog. My job here is to share some noteworthy and thought provoking posts from the past few weeks from…
Listen: This episode is a discussion with two leaders from Group Health Cooperative, a consumer-governed, nonprofit health care system based in Seattle, Washington. My guests are Claire Trescott, MD, Primary Care Medical Director, and Alicia Eng, Vice President of Primary…
Produced in partnership with the Healthcare Value Network, episode #119 is a discussion with Dean Gruner, MD, the president & CEO of ThedaCare. Here, we talk about Strategy Deployment as a Lean management system and how it fits into their ongoing management and improvement efforts in their health system.
In conjunction with our newly released DVD on strategy deployment in healthcare, the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value has released a new white paper on the subject that you can download for free. PAPER LINK (PDF) The white paper features…
2008 Annual Report: Reducing Waste I had a great visit with Group Health in Seattle on Monday, they are doing some great work with Lean in improving primary care and their insurance office operations. You might remember my podcast (from…
Part of the MoveToHealthcare.com series: Here is an updated and better maintained list…. Lean Healthcare Blogs (or those that cover Lean quite often): Lean Blog (link healthcare posts only) Daily Kaizen (Group Health Cooperative) Lean Healthcare Exchange Steven J. Spear…
Episode #23 of the LeanBlog Podcast features a panel of Lean leaders from the Group Health Cooperative, a consumer-governed, nonprofit health care system that coordinates care and coverage. Based in Seattle, Group Health and its subsidiary health carriers, Group Health…
DailyKaizen I don’t know if it’s fair to call the DailyKaizen site a “lean healthcare” blog, I think we can all learn from it as another “lean blog.” This is a blog that had been private within a health system…
