Tag: Healthcare
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...
"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...
