Tag: Healthcare
Lean, Value & Waste: Better to be Creative than to Cheat...
I saw this article last week in the USA Today while traveling, with the online headline "Products nipped, tucked to save." That headline makes...
Local News Stories About a Healthcare Value Leaders Network Visit to...
Recently, a group of leaders from the third cohort in the Healthcare Value Leaders Network visited Mercy Medical Center in Mason City, Iowa for...
What’s Your Role in Hospital Quality?
I snapped this pic while visiting a hospital earlier this year. This was out in the cafeteria as part of a series of signs...
An Astronaut’s Viewpoints on Systems & Patient Safety
Today, I'm sharing a brilliant Slate.com interview:
"Risky Business: James Bagian "NASA astronaut turned patient safety expert" on Being Wrong."
He's actually also an...
Jim Womack on Gemba Walks, Lean Leadership, and Lessons for Healthcare
In Episode #116 of the Lean Blog Interviews Podcast, Mark Graban talks with Jim Womack, founder and former Chairman of the Lean Enterprise Institute....
Updating “A Vision for a Lean Hospital”
I am working on finishing up the revised and updated edition of my first book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Satisfaction....
Check Out the Healthcare Value Network Podcast Series
One of my projects with LEI and the Healthcare Value Network is a podcast series I am hosting featuring leaders from our various Network...
From the LEI Summit: Mike Rother on Toyota’s View on ROI
I really had a great learning experience at last week's LEI Lean Transformation Summit that was held here in Dallas. The event sold out...
Guest Post: From Ad-Hoc to Systematic Change: A Framework for Kaizen...
Mark's note: I'm happy to have a new guest blogger, Dr. Wiljeana Glover, from MIT, and a fellow member of the Society for Health...
My Four Hypotheses for Friday’s DFW Healthcare/Industry Lean Gathering
Coming off of an outstanding 2011 Lean Transformation Summit (blog posts to come), John Toussaint, MD, is doing a huge favor for the Dallas-Fort...
The Workplace, “Bosses,” Health, and “Authentic Conversations”
As many people do, I had to fill out an online health assessment for the purposes of my family's health insurance. The survey asked...
From SHS: Ohio Health Reduces Surgical Site Infections Using Lean
A few weeks back, I attended the Society for Health Systems (SHS) Conference in Orlando, where I chaired the Patient Flow track. There were...
