Tag: Healthcare
Mark on the "Competing Podcast"
Lean Thinking Network | Competing Podcast » Archive » Competing Mark GrabanThanks to Dwight Bowen for having me as a guest on...
A Powerful Message on Lean and Healthcare
Why I Work In Healthcare | DailyKaizenHere's a great one to end the day on... Lee Fried has a powerful post over on the...
Surgical Checklists in the News!
WHO Proposes Checklist to Reduce Surgery Errors : NPR
A surgical revolution: checklist that could prevent thousands of deaths
Thanks to long-time readers Chet and Andrew...
Tom Peters: The high number of hospital-caused drug errors and infections...
From Modern Healthcare (link no longer available), Tom Peters throws a few verbal bombs at the healthcare industry:
Quality gains needn't be costly, Peters tells...
My Letter to the IE Magazine
I'm a proud member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers and their sub-organization the Society for Health Systems. I try to contribute to the...
Let the Process Experts Decide
Leading article: Infected by political calculationThis isn't a "Lean" story, per se, but it still caught my eye. Hospital-acquired infections are a major problem...
Lean in a Liverpool Hospital
Follow Royal's example on waiting lists, hospitals told - Liverpool Daily Post.co.ukNice story from here in the UK (where I am right now), about...
LeanBlog Podcast #46 — Dean Bliss, Lean Healthcare
Episode #46 is a chat with a good friend of the Lean Blog, Dean Bliss, a Lean Improvement Specialist with the Iowa Health System....
The President of Johns Hopkins Believes In Lean
Johns Hopkins Gazette | June 9, 2008From the online newsletter of William R. Brody, president of The Johns Hopkins University. He writes: ...
‘Lean" (Toyota Production System) is Not Just for "Lean Times" (Bad...
Grand Forks Herald | News in area business (scroll down)From a North Dakota newspaper... see if you can spot the part of the article...
Using Lean Simulations to Spur Emergency Room Improvement
Institute for Healthcare Improvement: Getting Lean in the EDHere is a story that includes examples of Lean improvements at Rockford Health System in Rockford,...
An MD/CEO In Indiana Believes in Lean
Doctor takes pulse of Lutheran Health | The Journal Gazette:Here's an article about Dr. Mike Schatzlein, Chief executive officer for Lutheran Health Network...
