Tag: Leape
Ryan McCormack’s Operational Excellence Mixtape: July 11, 2025
This edition of Ryan McCormack's Operational Excellence Mixtape reflects on the systems, leadership, and mindsets required for lasting improvement. From honoring Dr. Lucian Leape's...
Distracted Driving Deaths Distract Us from Medical Error Deaths?
The general public still, generally speaking, doesn't realize how much preventable harm and death occurs in healthcare each year. Efforts like the Dennis Quaid...
Liveblogging the Quaid Patient Safety Documentary
I'm blogging notes and thoughts as I watch the Discovery Channel documentary by actor Dennis Quaid and others -- "Chasing Zero: Winning the...
Did Lucian Leape Criticize Lean Healthcare — or Lean Done Wrong?
TL;DR: Patient safety leader Lucian Leape's critique appears less about Lean itself and more about "L.A.M.E."--Lean As Misguidedly Executed. True Lean in healthcare prioritizes...
Of 777s and Heart Rate Monitors
In recent years, healthcare has been learning a lot of lessons from aviation -- including checklists and "Crew Resource Management," as written about in...
Is Medical Education a Systemic Root Cause of Poor Quality?
I will try to be careful with this topic, since I'm obviously not a doctor. Criticism of doctors gets thrown around pretty easily around...
A Week of Lean and Patient Involvement at BIDMC
I had the opportunity to finally meet "e-Patient Dave" at the HIMSS conference about 10 days ago, where he spoke on the topic of...
