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.

Joint Commission to Investigate Use of Lean & Six Sigma

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Modern Healthcare Online ($$) | Fierce Healthcare (free)For those not in healthcare, the Joint Commission is a non-profit hospital accreditation organization. You might remember...

"Lean Building Techniques" for a Hospital?

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SignOnSanDiego.com -- Skeptical councilmen now brag about hospital plansFrom the article about a planned hospital:The district hopes to reduce the figure to $983 million...

Lean Overview Article in “The Hospitalist”

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The Lean Hospital The Hospitalist is a publication for physicians who practice "hospital medicine." I had a chance to be interviewed for what turned out...

Mark on the "Better Process" Podcast

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PodcasterNews - Better Process Podcast - Industry Report Mark Graban LeanHospitalsBook.comOK, this is turning into a highly promotional week for my book, hope that's...

Mark on the "Competing Podcast"

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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

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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!

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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...

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Episode #46 is a chat with a good friend of the Lean Blog, Dean Bliss, a Lean Improvement Specialist with the Iowa Health System....
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