Tag: Healthcare
A Lean Hospital Story in Tennessee
Memphis Daily News - Le Bonheur's New Treatment-Speeding System Ups Productivity by 54 Percent - 12/11/2007Here's a news story about a hospital I know...
TWI Job Instruction Method for Healthcare
TWI BlogThanks to Bryan for sending this along. The link above is to his site, which has a link to a PDF file that...
Gaming the Numbers in the UK, Again
Blundering hospitals 'kill 40,000 a year' - Britain - Times Online:Ah, gaming the numbers... everyone's favorite pastime. It certainly is here in the State,...
Checklists and Standardized Work in Patient Care
New Yorker - Dr. Atul GawandeHere is an outstanding piece by one of my favorite medical writers, on the use of checklists (a form...
Quaid Case Update: Whose Responsibility is Standardized Work?
If you're a regular reader, you might recall the Cedar-Sinai medical error that harmed Dennis Quad's twins (and others).
Quaid and his wife are now...
Follow Ups to BIDMC
If you've been following any of the posts about healthcare, here are a few interesting follow ups.Following up on this post about Boston's Beth...
The Need for Clean Hospitals
Our Unsanitary Hospitals - WSJ.comThat's "Clean", not a typo of "Lean." Good column in the WSJ today by Betsy McCaughey, head of the...
My At-Home Medical Mistake: Taking the Wrong Version of Day /...
I'm a bit mad at myself for inflicting some preventable human error on myself last night. It's OK, I didn't harm myself, but let...
The Need for Lean at BIDMC
I read Paul Levy's blog every chance I get. He is the CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Although...
Womack on China Costs and Lean Healthcare
IndustryWeek : Thought Leaders -- Lean On Me (Full Transcript)IndustryWeek : Thought Leaders -- Lean On Me (Print Version)Other blogs, including Gemba Panta Rei...
Operational Solutions instead of Political Solutions
A new design for healthcare delivery - The Boston Globe
Good column here from Steve Spear (of "Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System"...
Adverse Drug Events and Harm in Hospitals – Follow Up on...
Here are some follow-up articles, quotes, and data following up on the news from the other day that Dennis Quaid's twins were impacted by...