Tag: Healthcare

I've been working with "lean healthcare" in my day job for about a year now. I'm giving a presentation on Friday about lean healthcare...

DailyKaizen » Quote of the WeekAnother great historical quote, check out their lean healthcare blog in the link above."Give so much time to...

WOAI: San Antonio News - Woman Dies after Medical Mistake at CTRCAn 81 year-old woman died tragically after she was injected with 100cc of...

Fun day today. Healthcare, maybe more than other industries, is prone to tolerating and institutionalizing workarounds, as Steven Spear has written about.As I'm...

DailyKaizenI don't know if it's fair to call the DailyKaizen site a "lean healthcare" blog, I think we can all learn from it as...

One of the core ideas of the Toyota Production System is the recognition that people are indeed human and are therefore fallible (part of...

Hospitals combat errors at the 'hand-off'I've blogged before about how handoffs in a process create opportunities for errors. I wrote about a trivial...

Today's Detroit News wrote about lean in healthcare, this time in their own beloved University of Michigan system. Titled "U-M Hospital Takes Page from...

Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Overseas transcription errors 'putting patients' lives at risk'It's not news that many hospitals are strapped for cash....

Hospitals move to cut dangerous lab errorsHere is a free version of a WSJ article from last week. I know I've been posting...

MedQIC - Patient-Centered Care Supported by an EHR The link above (and this audio-video presentation with similar content) tell an amazing story of a private...

Drug in Fatal Medical Error A Known Hazard in Hospitals | theledger.comHere is another sad example of the need for lean methods for quality...