Tag: Healthcare

Healthcare Improvement Through Lean, Leadership, and Learning

Healthcare improvement isn’t about working harder—it’s about better systems, better leadership, and a culture that supports learning and speaking up. This archive brings together blog posts, podcasts, and reflections on Lean healthcare, patient safety, quality improvement, leadership, and continuous improvement. Many of these posts draw on real hospital experiences and lessons from Deming, Toyota, and frontline healthcare teams, with a consistent emphasis on respect for people and learning from mistakes.

Lean in the Bolton NHS Trust, England

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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

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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...

Two Events This Week – Presenting and Attending

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I wanted to remind you about an online event I'm presenting for Thursday afternoon and tell you about a new event (local to Dallas)...

A New Kaizen Event Survey for Hospitals

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Last year, I conducted a survey in advance of my book, Lean Hospitals. I've been a bit lax about sharing some of the results...

Lean in Hospitals around Detroit

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Hospitals try automakers' practice of building efficiency in effort to trim costs | The Detroit News | detnews.com Here's a good overview article about some...

Why Do Hospitals Have to Rely on Vigilant Patients and Families?

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Bedside Manner: Advocating for a Relative in the Hospital (WSJ) WSJ Health Blog (free): Five Tips for Helping a Family Member in the Hospital I've written...

Mark in an Audio Conference about Lean in Hospital Labs

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The Dark Report presents a new audio conference on...

Lean in a New Zealand E.R.

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Hospital aims for shorter wait times | Otago Daily Times Online Here's today's positive blog post. For cynicism and negativity on a different Lean topic...

5S Isn’t About Neat Desks: Correcting the WSJ’s Misunderstanding of Lean

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Neatness Counts at Kyocera and at Others in the 5S Club - WSJ.com I'm going to violate a rule I have to try not to...

Birthday Ramblings on Errors and Work Design

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Kevin Meyer, over at Evolving Excellence, recently wrote a good piece on "endorsing" a U.S. presidential candidate. Today, I'm technically Constitution-eligible to be...

Emergency Docs Flaunt Standardized Work

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Moonlighting county docs raise questions :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: The WatchdogsOK, this isn't strictly a Lean issue, but this caught my eye in the...

Words that Matter in Healthcare

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Healthcare Intelligence Network » Blog Archive » Eight Steps to a Culture of SafetyI think words matter. Action matters, also, but the...
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