Tag: Patient Safety

As National Patient Safety Awareness Week continues, thanks go to Graham Foster for sending me this article from the UK: Most NHS staff deem care...

Joining me for episode #195 is my friend Steve Montague from LifeWings. Steve and I met initially through our shared interest in Lean and,...

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...