Tag: Healthcare

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This might seem like a post about football... but stick with me even if you're not a sports fan. Many of you regular readers know...

Key Concepts of Lean in Healthcare - lean.orgAs part of my role with the Lean Enterprise Institute, I am developing a two-day intro course...

I was fortunate to be in England for five days last week. I saw the "gemba" at five hospitals in three days and attended...

Leading Lean: A Canadian Healthcare Leader's Guide :: Vol. 12 No. 3 2009 :: Healthcare Quarterly :: Longwoods PublishingToday, I'll share a link I've...

I'm sure anybody who has done any work with Lean has heard these words said in one form or another, often prefaced with a...

Episode #70 is an interview with Tamra Kaplan, the COO of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center. We talk about the lean transformation work being...

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...