Tag: Healthcare

I'm in Las Vegas, speaking today to close the Lean Healthcare PowerDay event. There are many great speakers, including Dr. Richard Shannon, Dr. David...

Here is a link to a story that caught my eye: "Wait times shrink in Brockton hospitals' emergency rooms." The good: "time spent waiting to...

Back by popular demand, here are links to some more articles I've read recently that might be of interest on a number of Lean...

Here's a great video of Paul O'Neill, former CEO of Alcoa and former U.S. Treasury Secretary, talking to healthcare leaders about their leadership role...

Here are links to some articles I've read recently that might be of interest: Can Hospital CEOs Be Team Players? (H&HN News) Preventing Hospital Blunders (Science...

Every few years, we see news articles about virtual reality robots that will roam hospital hallways - delivering medicines or supplies or allowing remote...

My friend Mike Thelen, who works in the dairy industry, has a guest post I'm going to publish next week talking about the seemingly...

This is all somewhat preliminary, but I've been talking to the folks at the Kaizen Institute  about helping organize a study trip to Japan,...

Just heard on CNN, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts: "... Congress had a balanced intent. You can't look at another provision and say...

Under Blog Break rules, I'll just post this article that I was quoted extensively in: "Author: Hospitals can use lean techniques to drive improvements...

Last week, an article in the Wall Street Journal caught my eye: "The Robots Are Coming to Hospitals:  A New Breed of Blue-Collar Robots...

Since the webinar I'm doing later today for Gemba Academy (Using SPC to Make Better Management Decisions) allows me to cite the late great...