Tag: Healthcare

Short post today, but a simple message, I think. One of the best lessons I've learned about Lean management is about the need to...

Through the @LEIhealthcare twitter account, one source of autotweets are the new threads started in the Lean Enterprise Institute forums. One new thread was started...

The full article requires a subscription, but John Toussaint and I were each quoted in this article from last Friday: "Toyota techniques drive profit,...

The Kaizen Institute website has posted an excellent text Q&A with Masaaki Imai, who you might recognize as the author of the relatively early...

You might remember me blogging about the Indianapolis incident where three babies died after being mistakenly  given an adult dose of heparin back in...

There's a long-standing argument that I've been dragged into with a group that calls itself "new systems thinkers." They loudly criticize Lean as being...

This headline jumped out at me: "Local hospital receives $500,000 to train workers." What also jumped out at me, in the article, is that the...

I may have shared this video before, but it's worth taking a quick video peek into one of my favorite companies - VIBCO. When...

I'm going to use this blog post / page to collect published statistics about the impact the Lean management philosophy has had on healthcare...

Last month, I wrote a post titled "Consulting Case Studies Need Statistical Validity" where I discussed the need to show more than simple "before...

Hospitals are full of workarounds and fire fighting, it's a pretty common problem. That's one reason cost is so high and quality is often...

My guest for Episode #102 is Ron Wince, the President/CEO of Guidon Performance Solutions. We talk here about his views on lean healthcare and...