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.

Operating on the wrong body part

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Serious errors by doctor, nurse reported at St. Mary's Medical CenterThis kind of article is published far too often, but this statistic is alarming:"Doctors...

Level Loaded Heart Attacks?

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Doctor's Advice: Have Your Heart Attack During Normal Business Hours Now this is sad, maybe it's not surprising. A study has shown that a...

Poor hospital processes may have killed man

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MercuryNews.com | 11/02/2005 | Medical mistake may have killed manIt is really sad when errors like this occur, it happens far too often in...

"Stop Rising Healthcare Costs Using Toyota Lean Production Methods"

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ASQA new book discusses the applications of lean manufacturing to healthcare.Please check out my main blog page at www.leanblog.org The RSS feed content you are...

Lean Healthcare Article in Harvard Business Review

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Fixing Healthcare From The Inside, Today Available through HBS... this is written by Steven J. Spear, a former Harvard professor who has written about Toyota...

TDO Working on Lean Initiative for Health-Care Sector

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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

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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

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RedNova News - Health - Q & A With Matthew FurlanThe subject of this article apparently received some top-notch lean training from Shingijitsu and...

Update on Duke Medical Mistake Case

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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

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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

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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

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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...
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