Tag: Nursing

A number of readers emailed me a link to this New York Times article: "U.S. Inaction Lets Look-Alike Tubes Kill Patients." The headline emphasizes...

Here is a nice little (under 2 minutes) news video from New Zealand talking about one hospital (in Auckland) and their implementation of the...

I received an email from a reader that I'm sharing and commenting on with permission. "Dear Mark: I am a lean coordinator for a manufacturing...

TL;DR: The New York Times showed that Lean healthcare isn't about "factory medicine," but about removing waste so clinicians can focus on patients. When...

This is going to seem like a political rant, but I promise this is mainly a post about Lean and healthcare, or at least...

ThedaCare, the health system in Wisconsin, often gets a lot of attention for the Lean improvements in their four hospitals, but they are also...

I would like to say a sincere "Happy Nurses Week" though, to the nurses who are reading. As I said on Twitter yesterday: Happy Nurses...

I'm blogging notes and thoughts as I watch the Discovery Channel documentary by actor Dennis Quaid and others --   "Chasing Zero: Winning the...

In an article ("Assembly required: Health care from the Toyota factory floor") from Canada's National Post newspaper says Lean healthcare is "taking Canadian healthcare...

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...

What really motivates people to improve their work--especially in healthcare and other complex environments? Drawing on Daniel Pink's Drive, Dr. W. Edwards Deming's teachings,...

In recent years, healthcare has been learning a lot of lessons from aviation -- including checklists and "Crew Resource Management," as written about in...