Tag: Healthcare
Healthcare Kaizen Events Survey, Part 2
Following up on Part 1 of the survey results, we'll now explore some of the results and lessons learned from event-driven Lean activities in...
Healthcare Kaizen Events Survey Results, Part 1
Last month, I conducted a non-scientific online survey about the use of event-style Kaizen methodologies in healthcare. There were 41 responses, gathered from...
To Layoff or Not To Layoff — That Really is a...
It seems like all we're hearing now is layoffs, layoffs, layoffs. In this article it was reported that Danaher, considered by many to...
Naida Grunden and Lean Healthcare
The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare: Improving Patient Care Using Toyota Based Methods
Below is a guest post from fellow author and Lean Healthcare practitioner,...
Moving Backward on Airline Safety?
Three airlines drop self-reporting safety program - USATODAY.comDropping this program has got to be one of those "process indicators" of airline safety. I can't...
5S for Crash Carts
BBC NEWS | Health | Breathing life into resuscitationThanks to my old boss, Mike, for sending this my way. Here's an article (with pictures,...
LeanBlog Podcast #54 – Dr. John Toussaint, Lean at ThedaCare
Our guest for Episode #54 is John S. Toussaint, MD, the CEO emeritus of ThedaCare, and CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value....
An Interesting Quote from Steve Spear on Toyota and Surprises
I recorded an upcoming LeanBlog Podcast with Steven J. Spear yesterday.
Here is that episode:
https://www.leanblog.org/2009/01/leanblog-podcast-58-steven-j-spear/
He's promoting his new book Chasing the Rabbit: How Market...
"Like Lean"? Drive Through Flu Shots
Vaccination available at hospital's drive-through - The Boston Globe
Have you gotten your flu shot yet? You might be able to find a "drive-through" way...
Lean Management in Healthcare: Patrick Anderson’s Vision in Chugachmiut
LeanBlog Podcast Episode #53 is a conversation with Patrick M. Anderson, the Executive Director of Chugachmiut, the Tribal consortium created to promote self-determination to...
Lean in the Bolton NHS Trust, England
Making lean thinking work in the NHS
Here's an article about a British hospital. I've seen the CEO, David Fillingham, speak about Lean and it...
BIDMC’s Lean Response to the Economy
Running a hospital: It's the economyYou might have seen in the news that hospitals showed record profits in 2007, according to Modern Healthcare.U.S. community...
