Tag: Healthcare

It has been over 10 years since the publication of the Institute of Medicine's study on preventable medical errors: To Err Is Human: Building...

Op-Ed Contributor - Health Care's Infectious Losses - NYTimes.com FINALLY, a major contribution to the discussion about how we need to improve the quality of...

I 've mentioned here, I think, that I was in The Netherlands earlier in June for almost a week. I was invited to speak...

I'm very pleased to present a guest post from Arizona about the successful use of Lean concepts and, more specifically, the "Training Within Industry"...

This is an interview with Dr. Sami Bahri, D.D.S., a dentist from Jacksonville, Florida. He is a pioneer in using Lean methods in the...

Dr. Gary Kaplan, the CEO of Virginia Mason Medical Center is now part of an effort called "Health CEOS for Health Reform". He posted...

Park Nicollet CEO to retire In the news story about CEO David Wessner's retirement, one of the listed accomplishments is their use of Lean methods: Wessner,...

Tamra Kaplan Named COO of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center - Yahoo! FinanceThere aren't too many details in this story, but Lean *has* led...

Lean Leap to Health Care #11 (click for Part #10) by Scott McDuffee "Have a nice day." When my daughters were younger, they would cheerfully wave at...

... or if it's too easy to make mistakes. One of my favorite books of all time is Donald Norman's The Design of Everyday Things....

A reminder about two upcoming events for the Lean Healthcare community:MIT Professional Education - Short Programs: MIT will be holding three short courses on...

IVF baby given to wrong woman - as couple's last embryo was aborted | Mail Online This was front-page news in one of the UK...