Tag: Healthcare
Akron Children’s Hospital Embraces Lean
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...
The Impact of Toyota’s Quality Problems on “Lean Healthcare”?
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....
Lean in Sweden: Tools < Thinking
I had an incredible visit to a hospital in Stockholm yesterday, to walk the "gemba" (the actual workplace) to see their lean improvement...
“Strategy Deployment” Online Video Education from John Toussaint
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...
Lean Healthcare Overview Video from Americans in Sweden
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...
Lean is “Loving Care”? Lean IS Loving Care… Or Should Be
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...
Video No Longer Available
Sorry, the hospital had reconsidered and they asked me to take the video down. I'm sorry for any inconvenience.
It’s not “lean” to wait 150 days for an MRI
This news story, "Ottawa Hospital seeks fourth MRI machine," from Ottawa describes an unfortunate situation where 90% of patients had been waiting 360 days...
University of Michigan and other hospitals in the news
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...
LeanBlog Video Podcast #9 – Dr. Sami Bahri, D.D.S.
Episode #9 is a new video discussion with Dr. Bahri, the "World's First Lean Dentist" (see also Video Podcast #5). Today we talk about...
LeanBlog Podcast #82: Dr. Sami Bahri, D.D.S.
Podcast #82 is another discussion with with Dr. Sami Bahri, D.D.S., a dentist from Jacksonville, Florida. He is a pioneer in using Lean methods...
Everyone a Problem Solver?
A phrase I keep hearing more of in the Lean world, even at a few hospitals is that leaders want "everyone to be a...