Tag: Healthcare

Why Every Patient Deserves the Care & Caution that Surrounds the...

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Today's post is a link to my article written for the LinkedIn "Influencers" series: Why Every Patient Deserves the Care & Caution that Surrounds the...

This Date in Lean Blog History: August 6

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My blog will turn 10 years old in February 2015. You're probably either thinking, "Wow, that's awesome!" or "Get a life, dude." :-) Here's a...

What I’m Reading: Diner Muda, No Blame at Etsy, Toyota Treats...

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In case you missed it, see Saturday's post: "Why Toyota is Eliminating the Andon Cord from its Factories." As I occasionally do, today's post is...

Why Toyota is Eliminating the Andon Cord from its Factories

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If you clicked on my intentionally attention grabbing headline (or what might be a parody of those)... no, Toyota isn't killing their famed and...

Podcast #205 – Joe Schnur, Innovations for Hand Hygiene & Patient...

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Listen: Episode #205 is a conversation with Joe Schnur, VP Business Development at Intelligent M, a company that "designs data-driven hand hygiene compliance  improvement solutions for...

A Survey Would Show 83% of Surveys about Lean Healthcare are...

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Last month, I saw a headline flying around Twitter about a survey that says a majority of hospital pharmacies are embracing Lean. A statement...

Report to President Obama Endorses Lean & Systems Engineering in Healthcare

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I recently saw a tweet that referenced a May 2014 that was sent to President Obama and his administration: "Report to the President - Better HealthCare...

Podcast #204 – Paul Plsek, Lean & Innovation at Virginia Mason...

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Joining me today for Episode #204 is Paul Plsek, and we're talking about his excellent book (a Shingo Research Award recipient this year) titled...

Picking on the PICK Chart

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The so-called "PICK chart" has become a pretty common sight in healthcare as a way of visualizing and prioritizing Lean or Kaizen improvement ideas....

It’s Awful When the Person Teaching Lean Doesn’t Get the Bad...

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Long-time readers might remember this post of mine from February 2007: Bad Lean/5S Hits the UK Media Please check out that post. It's a classic example...

What Does #Lean Flow Look Like in Healthcare? Check Out These...

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It's easy for people to think that Lean is about cost-cutting. That would be wrong, but many people associate Lean with cost cutting. Cost cutting...

My Thoughts on “10 Ideas That Hospital and Health System CEOs...

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I saw this piece by Bob Herman at Becker's Hospital Review and ended up writing a blog post here instead of writing a long...
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