Tag: Healthcare

Some people might find this graphic inflammatory, if they are feeling defensive about the state of healthcare and if they feel like they are...

I've been reading the book Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly  and, while it's really interesting, I tend to agree with some...

It's a project that my co-author, Joe Swartz, and I have been working on all year... the manuscript is finally complete and sent (as...

This is the first Lean article or case study I recall seeing about a German hospital: "JACR: Lean Six Sigma increases MRI productivity." The...

It's been nice to see the "lean design" approach taking hold in healthcare over the past few years. I think the first book on...

Update: I edited the post title to add "Or Does He?" See the CEO's comment below, suggesting that the TV report gave the wrong...

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...