Tag: Healthcare

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Ontario is betting big on an untested hypothesis of reorganizing and consolidating healthcare operations and budgets predicting it will result...

Back in 2013, I wrote a LinkedIn article (orread on Medium) about how the "Doctors: Best of 2013" list in a San Antonio magazine...

Recently, I blogged about how a Lean hospital would focus on reducing overwork on nurses and other staff: https://www.leanblog.org/2019/01/lean-should-be-the-solution-to-hospital-overwork-or-understaffing/ Another term that could be used is...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Daily safety huddles are simple, inexpensive, and effective methods to raise and escalate patient safety risks.  Start your safety...

My guest today for Episode #331 is Eric W. Dickson, MD, MHCM, FACEP, a Professor of Emergency Medicine at UMass Medical School and Chief...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Why do we have to wake up patients to take vital signs every 4 hours if they are stable? ...

The first part of this post is a pretty long introduction before sharing quotes and views from an article that raises concerns about Lean...

Joining me today for Episode #330 of the podcast is Christoph Roser, a professor of production management at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences...

Mark's note: Mike Sporer has commented a few times on blog posts and I invited him to write this guest post after we exchanged...

Joining me today for Episode #329 of the podcast is Mike Eisenberg, the director, editor, and producer of the film "To Err is Human," a...

Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Too often, patient involvement in design and research is tokenist or "tick-box", and requires burdensome processes for participation.  To truly design...

Mark's Note: Today's post is written by Ken Segel, the managing director of Value Capture, LLC. This is the first of what I hope...