Tag: Healthcare

Quality and Cost Always Go Together with Lean Thinking

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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"

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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As I had alluded to the other day, there was a huge investigative piece that ran across the country Sunday in the Hearst Newspapers....
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