Tag: Healthcare

Toyota’s Video Showing How TPS Helps Healthcare; Recent NASA Report Exonerates...

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Toyota has produced a series of videos that show how their innovations, technology and otherwise, have benefitted people outside of automobiles. One video that caught...

Texas Snow Days Expose the Gaming of Standardized Tests

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As you might have heard, considering all of the Super Bowl media hype from here in North Texas, our weather has been pretty bad....

Naida Grunden, A Discussion About Lean, Aviation Safety, Captain Sullenberger, and...

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Listen: Episode #112 is a chat with Naida Grunden, the author of the outstanding book The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Improving Patient Care Using...

10 Key Lean Mindsets for Healthcare

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I really enjoyed having the chance to be in Cincinnati yesterday to participate in a Lean Healthcare workshop put on by TechSolve, a non-profit...

Lean Methods to Improve Cardiac Surgery Featured in Annals of Thoracic...

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Hat tip to my friend and fellow Productivity Press author Naida Grunden for pointing out an article she is a co-author on, "Improving Patient...

Coach Vince Lombardi on Striving for Perfection

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I apologize to those of you who aren't fans of American football... but in keeping with the Super Bowl theme, I found this Vince...

An American ED Doc in New Zealand – Reflections on Pushback...

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Mark's note: Today's guest post is from Dr. Mark Jaben, an American doctor who worked in New Zealand, leading to this blog post. I...

Dr. Jack Billi, University of Michigan Professor, on Applications of Lean...

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Listen: Episode #110 is a chat with Dr. Jack Billi from the University of Michigan Health System and Medical School. Here, we talk about their lean...

Cases of Technology “Solutions” Looking for a Problem?

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One of my favorite of the 14 "Toyota Way" principles to discuss with hospitals, in particular, is  principle #8, which  says: "Use only reliable, thoroughly...

Lean Healthcare Design Video Series – Part 3, Working Together for...

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Here is Part 3 of our video discussion series about Lean Healthcare Design, featuring Miguel Burbano, an architect and Senior Vice President with The...

A Chance for Learning and Mentoring in DFW – Industry and...

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I want to tell you about an event I'm helping to plan for people in the DFW area. This is a small, by-invitation event,...

Lean Healthcare Comes to Hong Kong

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The website HK News Watch published an article called "Hospitals take initiative to tackle long waits" that describes efforts to use Lean and kaizen...
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