Tag: Healthcare

The long history of Industrial Engineers helping in healthcare goes back 100 years to one of the "fathers of Industrial Engineering," Frank Gilbreth --...

Unfortunately, healthcare professionals often aren't given the tools they need to do their jobs properly. People are forced into workarounds and corner cutting, or...

I was going through some old notes I've taken when visiting different hospitals and I came up with this quote from a healthcare professional: "I've...

I saw the following in a submission for a session at the 2012 Society for Health Systems conference, where I'm the Lean track chair. One...

When I recently interviewed Paul O'Neill and Dr. Richard Shannon about the amazing improvements in patient safety that had been made in the Pittsburgh...

I've recently had an email exchange with a retiree who is volunteering in a non-profit hospice care facility. I'm sharing this thoughts with his...

After last week's piece on "putting the continuous back into continuous improvement," I had another article published this past week. This new article was published...

Podcast #127 is a very special conversation with a leader and a hero of mine in the world of patient safety, Richard P. Shannon,...

In my segment, we talk about Lean in healthcare, including my recent article on Healthcare Kaizen, quality and patient safety improvement, unique challenges in healthcare, and more.

I'm in beautiful Traverse City, Michigan for a few days for the Michigan Lean Consortium annual conference. It's my home state, so it's great...

Thanks to Quality Digest for publishing an article I co-authored with Gregory Jacobson, MD, a co-founder and the CEO of KaiNexus, a software startup...

On his blog, John Toussaint shared this letter from ThedaCare CEO Dean Gruner to all employees. Toussaint said the letter is inspired by Paul...