Tag: Healthcare
Like Lean: Solving Health Care Problems By Design
Solving Health Care Problems By Design : NPRThanks to Andrew B. for passing this along - audio and web text from NPR with some...
Lean Methods for Aerospace and Healthcare in Ontario
Article - How Toyota builds carsHere's an article from Canada about how Toyota (an automaker) manages to be influential to Bombardier (maker of planes)...
LeanBlog Podcast #76 – Dr. David Jaques, Lean in Surgical Services
Episode #76 is a discussion with Dr. David Jaques, VP of Surgical Services at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO.
In this podcast, Dr. Jaques...
Exec from Seattle Children’s on Lean Healthcare in the Washington Post
Patrick Hagan: Waste Not, Want Not: The Key to Reducing Costs - washingtonpost.comHere is an outstanding piece from the President & Chief Operating Officer...
RN Doesn’t Follow Standardized Work, Exposes Patients to Risk of Disease
Broward General nurse possibly exposed patients to risk - South Florida - MiamiHerald.com
Story and nurse discussion here
A number of you (thanks!) sent me this...
“No Blame” Doesn’t Mean “No Accountability”
Wachter's World : Physician Accountability for Violation of Safety Rules: The Time For Excuses Has Passed
I think Bob Wachter has it completely right in...
Lean at Windsor’s Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital
Here is a video from Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital (HDGH) in Windsor, Ontario Canada about their Lean effort, the video is part of their main...
I Guess These Couples Should Worry – We Need Lean, not...
Embryo mix-up worries couples | detnews.com | The Detroit News
I've seen a lot of news stories about couples who suffer through errors caused by...
5S and Kanban at BIDMC = Happiness
Running a hospital: MICUs go Lean: Result = HappinessIn lieu of a blog post today, I'm leaving you with a recent post on Paul...
A "Step Backward" in Patient Safety?
Joint Commission Changes Requirement for Patient ID during Blood Draws | Dark DailyThanks to my friend Robert Michel and the Dark Daily for bringing...
Lean Healthcare Conference in Italy
Lean Forums - Lean Healthcare in ItalyI wish I was attending, but I was asked to pass along this info about a Lean...
Silver Bullets and Easy Answers — Always Appealing
While in Boston, I'm getting the chance to sit in on some sessions of an MIT Seminar in Healthcare Systems Innovation.
Today, the session that...
