Tag: Healthcare

Weekend Fun: An Elegant Solution by Subtraction (“Parks & Recreation”)

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Our good friend Matt May (see posts and podcasts about him here) has a new book coming out in October,  The Laws of Subtraction:...

Weekend Fun: Where Good Ideas Go to Die

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There's a funny cartoon over at ONEFTE.com about suggestions and employee ideas. The post is titled "Where good ideas go to die." One time...

Reader Questions: Lean and Process Improvement in Healthcare

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I received some really good questions from a reader, Nick, who has recently crossed industries to bring his Lean Manufacturing experience into healthcare. Since...

Lots of Great Lean Healthcare Progress in Iowa

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Thanks to Dean Bliss for sending an article to me about some of the great Lean healthcare work taking place in Iowa. I've visited...

Podcast #139 – David Munch, MD of Healthcare Performance Partners on...

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Listen: Episode #139 is a conversation with Dave Munch, MD, the Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer for Healthcare Performance Partners (HPP). Before joining...

ASQ Influential Voices: Young People and the Future of Engineering and...

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I'm happy to be participating in the ASQ "Influential Voices" blog series here in 2012. ASQ President Paul Borawski (listen to my podcast with...

10 Tips from a Hospital CEO – from the #SHS2012 Conference

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Sunday's keynote presenter at the 2012 Society for Health Systems conference was Dr. Stephen Markovich, the CEO of Riverside Methodist Hospital, a 1000+ bed...

Hello from the SHS Conference & a Question for the Readers

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Hello from Las Vegas, where Monday is Day 2 of the outstanding Society for Health Systems annual conference. I presented Sunday about Healthcare Kaizen...

What People Think a Lean Healthcare Consultant Does

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Some of you might be familiar with the internet meme, spreading on Facebook especially, about "what people think of my profession" (as described in...

WSJ: How to Be a Better Boss? Spend Time on the...

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Last Thursday's Journal had a story titled "How to Be a Better Boss? Spend Time on the Front Lines." The article talks about senior...

Marketing Flyer for Upcoming “Healthcare Kaizen” Book

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We are still working on rounds of editing in advance of publication, but here is a marketing flyer for our upcoming book Healthcare Kaizen. The...

The Fall and Rise of Automotive (and Healthcare) Quality

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One of my favorite newspaper writers is Ed Wallace of my local Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Wallace appears in the Sunday automotive section and usually...
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