Tag: Healthcare
Quality and Cost Always Go Together with Lean Thinking
This is an old story, from May, that I've meant to write about for a while. Peter Orszag, the Director of the Office of...
New Blog: "Grand Rounds"
I'd like to welcome a new blogger to the Lean Healthcare space: Thomas L. Jackson of Rona Consulting and author of these books:
Hoshin Kanri...
‘Takt Time’ for Apple’s App Store and for Healthcare
Sunday, I read this New York Times article about Apple's "App Store" for the iPhone and iPod Touch (I've been a pretty happy iPhone...
All of the Fox News ThedaCare Videos
Here are all of the videos, embedded from Fox News. Click here for a page with summaries of each.
As of October 2011, you can...
ThedaCare News Coverage & More from Fox News
This is a big day for Lean in healthcare, as here is a link to FoxNews.com with five longer videos about ThedaCare and their...
Q&A #2 – Michael Balle, "The Lean Manager" – Nursing
I recently invited questions for Michael Balle, the author of the Shingo Prize winning book The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround. He...
Lean Healthcare Success in Albany NY
Area hospitals make strides in quality of care -- Page 1 -- Times Union - Albany NYThe CEO of a health system in New...
Denver Health’s CEO Spreading the Word about Lean
Checking In With Denver Health CEO Patricia Gabow On A "Model" Health Care System - Kaiser Health News
Dr. Patty Gabow has been one of...
Lean is Not Sustainable, Except When It Is
What top-performing EDs do - Hospitals & Health Networks
I was really, Really, REALLY puzzled by the first line in this article, that read:
"Lean, Six...
LeanBlog Podcast #72 – Dr. John Toussaint, Lean & Healthcare Reform
Our returning guest is John S. Toussaint, MD, the CEO emeritus of ThedaCare, and CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value. In the...
Modern Healthcare Podcast with Hospital Execs
Ill. hospital execs find savings in Lean methodologies - Modern HealthcareIt's nice to see Modern Healthcare is doing some podcasts, or at least I...
"Dead by Mistake" Report Hits the News
As I had alluded to the other day, there was a huge investigative piece that ran across the country Sunday in the Hearst Newspapers....