Tag: Healthcare

Hear Mark read the post (subscribe to the podcast series): I don't normally pay too much attention to TV commercials, but I was working out...

My guests for Episode #270 of the podcast are two physicians: Paul DeChant, MD and Diane Shannon, MD. They are co-authors of the recently-released book Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine.

I had a chance to visit one of their community hospitals, Hillcrest Hospital, as well as the main campus. It was a very stimulating visit and it was great to see the progress they were making in building a “culture of improvement.”

Cardinal Health has posted my article on their website: Creating a New "Gold Standard" - Healthcare Supply Chain Best Practices from Other Industries You can view...

John W. Parks IV, pictured at left, is a Professor of Percussion at Florida State University. He was one of my favorite people during my...

I first blogged about this article back in 2009 and it's still online: "Keen to Be Lean" The sub headline talks about hospitals being "desperate to...

I was happy to see an engineer (Chemical Engineering) and a General Motors leader, Alicia Boler Davis, on the cover of the Northwestern University...

I don't know anything about farming. The only time I spend on "farms" is visits to wineries that grow grapes, as I've blogged about...

Following up on last week's post where I shared KaiNexus webinars from the first half of the year.... Again, one of the things I do...

Joining me for Episode #269 are Brian MacNeice & James Bowen, co-authors of the recently released book Powerhouse: Insider Accounts into the World's Top High-performance Organizations....

Back in 2014, I wrote about a CBC radio piece that featured, among other organizations, St. Mary's General Hospital in Ontario: You can check out...

I get annoyed by corporate euphemisms, such as referring to people as "resources," the term "right-sizing" for layoffs, and the type of jargon and babble...