Tag: Patient Safety

When I started blogging here in 2005, I was still about six months away from my transition from "lean manufacturing" to "lean healthcare." It...

Thanks to my friends at the Lean Enterprise Institute for hosting a new article of mine on their Lean Post blog. "The Question All Healthcare...

Thanks to the organizing sponsor Protegra and other sponsors, including my friends at LeanKit, for having me give a keynote talk about the Software...

Here's an excellent commentary by  Ashish K. Jha, M.D., M.P.H, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health: "In The Race For 'Fanciest...

Near home in San Antonio, I had a chance to volunteer last Friday, speaking for an hour to a group of high school juniors...

They just started a year ago (better late than never?), but San Francisco General Hospital had its Lean efforts highlighted in the San Francisco...

I recently received two emails that are worth sharing, in anonymous form here. One was from somebody I know who just quit a Lean...

I've recently heard of a scenario in healthcare that I suspect is pretty common, or at least it's not the first time I've heard...

As we move into the Labor Day weekend, I need to close some browser tabs that are full of things that I was maybe...

Following up on my previous posts (here and here) on a recent visit to the Northern California Wine Country, I'm going to share a...

A friend shared this fun video about how to influence hand washing behavior amongst a group of 12 kids. As the introduction points out,...

In hospitals, there's a big emphasis on healthcare professionals always checking TWO patient identifiers to help avoid getting the wrong patient. You might have...