Tag: Healthcare
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...
"Rounding" and "Gemba Walks"
StuderGroup - The Magic of Rounding
Here's a good article from Quint Studer about "rounding" -- something Lean folks might refer to as a "Gemba...
"Checklists" Innovator is One of Time’s 100
Peter Pronovost - The 2008 TIME 100 - TIME
It's so nice to see someone like Dr. Peter Pronovost on the "most influential" list, even...
Open Source Public Health Software through Lean Methods
Collaborative Software InitiativeThe link above is a project that might be interesting to those of you working in "Lean Software"... or those who afraid...
Fire Fighting vs. Root Cause Problem Solving
Below is some of the text from edition #3 of the newsletter from my upcoming book Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee...
"Just In Time Patients??"
Medical Leave -- Offshore Medicine -- Fast CompanyInteresting read here in the latest issue of Fast Company about a hospital in Thailand and...
Nursing Shortage Easing?
Slowdown's Side Effect: More Nurses - WSJ.com:Not a Lean article, but a major issue for hospitals is a shortage of nurses. With the economy...
The Power of Asking "Why?"
reportonbusiness.com: Asking 'why' again and again is harder than you think, but it works
It's kind of neat to see a column about the "5...
