Tag: Healthcare
TDO Working on Lean Initiative for Health-Care Sector
Press Release:Here is a nice summary of some lean healthcare/hospital efforts under way in New York:"The hospitals applied lean principles in numerous areas, he...
The State of Lean Healthcare: Critical Mass is Building
Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing thoughts | Gemba Panta Rei
The blog at gemba.com is always very thoughtfully done. This links to a writeup they...
An Interview with a Lean Hospital COO
RedNova News - Health - Q & A With Matthew FurlanThe subject of this article apparently received some top-notch lean training from Shingijitsu and...
Healthcare Professionals Learning How to Use Value-Stream Mapping
Lean Enterprise Institute
This is a press release/ad from the LEI. It's interesting to see how these tools and concepts are being adopted in...
Update on Duke Medical Mistake Case
Eyewitness News 11.com: Duke Awaits Analysis in Instrument Probe:It's lean healthcare day on the blog, I guess. This is an update to a...
Toyota’s efficiencies can benefit American health care
David K. Wessner, President and chief executive officer of Park Nicollet Health Services.Here is a column from the leader of a Minnesota non-profit hospital,...
Waste watchers learning the lean routine in clinical laboratories
College of American Pathologists:
It's much more fun to think about what could be (lean healthcare) than what was (GM's dominance in the...
Toyota Assembly Line Inspires Improvements at Hospital
Washington Post (via MSNBC):Another example of the waste-filled health care system adopting TPS methods and approaches:"In adopting the Toyota mind-set, Kaplan said, the 350-bed...
Second Lawsuit Filed In Hydraulic Fluid Mistake At Hospitals
WRAL.com I've talked a little about using lean to prevent medical mistakes. This mistake, someone using hydraulic fluid to clean surgical instruments, is mind...
Park Nicollet: National Leader in Applying ‘Lean Production’ to Health Care
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Another interesting example of "lean health care". I've had a chance to take a tour with the lean process improvement team at...
