Six Best Practice Elements of ThedaCare’s Collaborative Care Model Here’s an article from Becker’s Hospital Review about the six best practices of Lean-based Collaborative Care at Thedacare. This is the same model that was featured a few months back on…
Solving Health Care Problems By Design : NPR Thanks to Andrew B. for passing this along – audio and web text from NPR with some concepts that might sound a lot like Lean. In an interview with the CEO of…
Broward General nurse possibly exposed patients to risk – South Florida – MiamiHerald.com Story and nurse discussion here A number of you (thanks!) sent me this article from CNN about a Fort Lauderdale nurse who resigned — and may face…
Running a hospital: MICUs go Lean: Result = Happiness In lieu of a blog post today, I’m leaving you with a recent post on Paul Levy’s “Running a Hospital” blog about Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital. You can see pictures and…
Hospital CEOs manage staff time, inventory to cut costs – USATODAY.com It’s nice to see a major publication covering Lean and, especially, Lean in healthcare. This time, it was USA Today who, again, did a better job than the WSJ…
I recently invited questions for Michael Balle, the author of the Shingo Prize winning book The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround. He has a new book (published by LEI, my employer), recently published, called “The Lean Manager.” Here…
I recently invited questions for Michael Balle, the author of the Shingo Prize winning book The Gold Mine: A Novel of Lean Turnaround. He has a new book (published by LEI, my employer), recently published, called “The Lean Manager.” Here…
A clear vision for better health care – The Globe and Mail This is an article about Lean improvements in the British Columbia health system, where the physicians have been taught to: Identify and purge waste, and stop doing things…
The Myth of Multitasking – Dave Crenshaw I am long overdue on a review of this book, which I feel bad about because I really enjoyed it. Maybe I didn’t get to it because I was too busy multitasking… First…
I had an epiphany the other day. It was one of those moments where I was pretty ashamed and was ready to turn in my Lean credentials. I spent too much time each day deleting the same emails from companies…
By Dean Bliss: One of the big challenges we have as Lean people is to get beyond presentations, classes, and posters, and get to the real work done by the real workers. At our hospital system, we’re learning a technique…
So I’m finally watching the DVR-ed episode from March 10, 2009, that gave widespread exposure to the issue of medical mistakes. Oprah began the show by citing the statistic that errors cause more deaths than “breast cancer, AIDS, and car…
