Tag: Healthcare
Lean Lessons for Healthcare from a Boeing 737 Factory Video
Podcaster Cali Lewis (a fellow DFW-area Texan) hosts a show called GeekBeat.tv, where she normally highlights new consumer tech gadgets and nerdy robots from...
Frequently Highlighted Passages in “Lean Hospitals”
I love my Amazon Kindle (I have had a 2nd generation 3G Kindle for about two years). Amazon has recently made the device more...
Dr. Gawande’s Commencement Address: Cowboys or Pit Crews?
Most (all?) of us here did NOT graduate from Harvard Medical School last week. But, we all can read the commencement address that was...
Audio Story w Pictures: Lean at Virginia Mason Medical Center &...
Here is a video from the St. Louis Beacon (actually, an NPR-style audio story with pictures) about Lean healthcare at Virginia Mason Medical Center,...
Time & Motion Studies Are Not “Discredited,” Just How They Are...
First off, a huge thumbs up and thanks are due to Eric Ries and his thought-provoking "Startup Lessons Learned" conference on the "Lean Startup"...
Lean Healthcare Design Video Series – Part 4, Continuous Improvement
Here is the long overdue Part 4 of our video discussion series about Lean Healthcare Design, featuring Miguel Burbano, an architect and Senior Vice...
PDSA Video from IHI
It's alphabet soup Saturday, as this IHI PDSA video comes from a PhD, Robert Lloyd. A great basic overview (or refresher course) for anyone...
Checklists Promoted and Debated on “Grey’s Anatomy”
It's my second post about the TV show Grey's Anatomy, the first being "McDreamy" Fights the Blame Game on "Grey's Anatomy." Each post makes...
Guest Post: Misuse of Rules and Rewards
As Mark Graban stated in a recent post, "People fear or assume that a factory is...mindless, monotonous, repetitive..." These sentiments may come from observation...
As Seen on TV: Random Lean Terms in Commercials
On a recent Sunday morning, I was watching cable news channels and two different commercials had a word jump out at me, words that...
Guest Post: Relying on Culture or Technology to Improve Patient Safety?
Today's post is from my friend Naida Grunden, author of the outstanding book The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Improving Patient Care Using Toyota...
Free White Paper on Strategy Deployment in Healthcare
In conjunction with our newly released DVD on strategy deployment in healthcare, the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value has released a new white paper...
