Tag: Healthcare

This story is from Wisconsin Public Radio talks about Lean at Aurora Health Care, based in the Milwaukee area. ("Hospitals Turn to Lean Management...

Mark's note: This is a guest post made available for me to post by Barnes-Jewish Hospital. by Laurie Wolf and Nancy Sigillito The full article is...

I just finished Dr. Atul Gawande's latest book, The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. I believe that this book is the single...

Here is an article that discusses the adoption of Lean methods at Akron Children's Hospital ("Hospital embraces lean strategies of manufacturing"). The article spells out...

As I'm traveling back from Sweden today, I think I'll be catching up on the web reaction to Toyota's major quality problems and recalls....

I had an incredible visit to a hospital in Stockholm yesterday, to walk the "gemba" (the actual workplace)   to see their lean improvement...

One project I'm involved with at the LEI is an online video education event on the topic of "strategy deployment," confusing known also as...

As I'm currently in Sweden, I was reminded of this video I found recently featuring John Black, a lean healthcare consultant and author who...

As you read this, I'll have just arrived in Stockholm, Sweden, where I have the honor of being the guest of UniLabs, a European...

Sorry, the hospital had reconsidered and they asked me to take the video down. I'm sorry for any inconvenience.

This news story, "Ottawa Hospital seeks fourth MRI machine," from Ottawa describes an unfortunate situation where 90% of patients had been waiting 360 days...

This article from Detroit's Crain's Business Journal ("Lean machine: Health care follows auto's lead, gears up for efficiency") highlights a growing lean healthcare movement...