Tag: Healthcare

On June 30, the PBS NewsHour program did a 7-minute story on healthcare improvement (featuring Lean and Toyota methods) at Denver Health. You can also...

This is always a tongue-in-cheek warning, but there are times when I warn hospital leaders that they have to be careful when going to...

Listen: Today's episode is a discussion with Mrinalini Gadkari, a Senior Lecturer at the Fisher College of Business. Today, we're talking about the new  Master...

Thanks to those of you who sent me the link to this Washington Post article called "The Pain of Wrong Site Surgery." The piece...

Here is a great video by Masaaki Imai, author of the classic books Kaizen: The Key To Japan's Competitive Success and Gemba Kaizen: A...

Today's episode is a chat with Jody Crane, MD, MBA and Chuck Noon, PhD. They are talking about their outstanding book The Definitive Guide...

Last week, at the 2nd annual Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit, I moderated the CEO Panel discussion that featured four excellent Lean leaders: Jim FitzPatrick...

In today's post, I'm happy to introduce Dr. Les Muda, the World's First Lean Healthcare Comedian. First and perhaps the last. Dr. Muda sent...

We had a great first day at our Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit in Seattle (with lots of tweets from attendees you can follow along...

There was an interesting article in the most recent Inc. Magazine called "Domestic Medical Tourism: How one company is saving businesses big bucks on...

Mark's note: Today's guest post is from  Dr. Mark Jaben. I first met Mark in person at  Cindy Jimmerson's Lean Healthcare West conference in...

Vote for this year's "Modern Healthcare's Most 100 Influential" list. Click here. Sadly, Dr. John Toussaint is not on the list of nominees. I voted for...