Tag: Operating Room
Don’t Speed Up or Improve a Workaround Process – Fix the...
Hospitals are full of workarounds and fire fighting, it's a pretty common problem. That's one reason cost is so high and quality is often...
My Interview with Justin Holland, of GE Healthcare
Today's post is an interview I conducted via email with Justin Holland, Managing Principal of GE Healthcare Americas. Before joining GE, he was most...
Hospital Advertises 3-Second Savings – Will the Public Care?
Hat tip to Helen Z. for finding this full-page print ad in the New York Times. The full ad appears below in this post,...
Happy Birthday Frank Gilbreth; Reducing Waste in Hospitals… Green is Lean
Today, July 7, is the birthday of Frank Gilbreth, born this day in 1868. While some of his methods arguably ranked low on the...
Akron Children’s Hospital Embraces Lean
Here is an article that discusses the adoption of Lean methods at Akron Children's Hospital ("Hospital embraces lean strategies of manufacturing").
The article spells out...
Lean Materials Management Improves Hospital Service, Bottom Line
Lean... and saving green - Materials Management in Healthcare Mag
Here's an article in a healthcare trade publication that features the Lean improvements from two...
Why it Took 15 Years for Common Sense to be Accepted...
Frank and Lillian Gilbreth: scientific management in the operating room
I sprung $20 for this healthcare journal article about the Gilbreths, thought I'd share a...
Interviewed for articles in "Becker’s Hospital Review"
I was recently interviewed by a reporter at Becker's Hospital Review and these are the articles, linked below, written for a hospital and operating...
Article about Lean in Canadian Cataract Surgery and More
A clear vision for better health care - The Globe and MailThis is an article about Lean improvements in the British Columbia health system,...
“Lean Won’t Work Here… We’re Different!” Is That Really True?
I'm sure anybody who has done any work with Lean has heard these words said in one form or another, often prefaced with a...
Lame Survey about Lean in Healthcare?
Hospitals See Benefits of Lean and Six Sigma
Regular readers know I often write about what I termed "L.A.M.E." -- Lean as Misguidedly Executed. The...
“Stop the Line” in a Hospital
Today it's Toyota, tomorrow the NHS; Hospital looks to adopt safety initiative
The concept of any worker being able to stop the line in a...
