Tag: Healthcare

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...

Today's post is a case study submitted by  Abdul N. Mansour,  Director Lean & Process Improvement at  Scottsdale (AZ) Healthcare. The material here and...

Last week, I posted a podcast with Mike George, founder of Strong America Now, an organization that is promoting Lean and Six Sigma methods...

After a week of serious topics and sometimes pointed discussion, let's end with a funny sign... well wait, there's a serious story behind this...

As I've worked with different hospitals and different leaders, I've sometimes wondered if there's been a study on the differences in results between hospitals...

This blog post contains a real job posting,  found online. Let's make this a reader participation challenge. I see maybe three things "wrong" or...

Here's a nice video that popped up on YouTube from the Toronto-area University Health Network system, with healthcare professionals talking about how Lean has...