Tag: Healthcare
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...
Interviewed for articles in "Becker’s Hospital Review"
I was recently interviewed by a reporter at Becker's Hospital Review and these are the articles, linked below, written for a hospital and operating...
Q&A #4 – Michael Balle, What’s the big deal about A3?
I recently invited questions for Michael Balle, the author of the Shingo Prize winning book The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround. He...
It’s Simple Things that can Fix Healthcare
Sacramento-area hospitals use simple ways to cut mistakes - Sacramento BeeThis article has some great examples and an endorsement of the Lean mindset in...
President of Dartmouth College Endorses Lean for Healthcare
I really enjoyed this PBS interview with with Dr. Jim Yong Kim, formerly of Harvard Medical School and now the new President of Dartmouth...
The 5 Whys Only Work When They’re Sequential, Not Scattershot
tl;dr: Many people misuse the 5 Whys by asking five loosely related questions rather than a sequential chain of cause and effect. Real root...
Book to Read: "The Healing of America"
Books - One Injury, 10 Countries - A Journey in Health Care - Review - NYTimes.comI think this book,The Healing of America: A Global...
The First "Live Tweeted" Hospital Rapid Improvement Event?
Our friends at ThedaCare are running an experiment this week. One of their Rapid Improvement Event team members is going to send a few...
Free Access to John Toussaint’s "Health Affairs" Article
Healthcare - "Writing The New Playbook For U.S. Health Care: Lessons From Wisconsin"
John Toussaint just had a piece published in the influential peer-reviewed journal...
USA Today Features Lean in Hospitals
Hospital CEOs manage staff time, inventory to cut costs - USATODAY.com
It's nice to see a major publication covering Lean and, especially, Lean in healthcare....
