Tag: Patient Safety

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Virginia Mason's 20 year pursuit of measurably better value for patients is...

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Health Care Workers Protect Us. It's Time To Protect Them.  Great article...

Back in May, I shared the first episode of a podcast that I'm producing for the firm Value Capture... it's called "Habitual Excellence." I won't...

Thanks as always to Ryan McCormick for this... Healthcare - Creating Value for Patients Electronic Health Records and Computerized Physician Order Entry were going to reduce...

Today, I went for a brisk 50-minute walk on a sunny morning and my companion was the voice of the late Paul O'Neill as...

I had a phone conversation yesterday with an emergency medicine physician after her shift at an unnamed hospital in an undisclosed state. She had a...

I've been thinking a lot about hospitals and how they're preparing for the expected tsunami of Covid-19 patients who will need ICU beds and...

Returning for Episode #360 of the podcast is Leah Binder, the president and CEO of Leapfrog Group. We last talked four years ago in...

Here is a story that was sent to me by a blog reader, who needs to remain anonymous. I know the blog reader fairly...

I think that working to reduce patient harm (to improve patient safety) is one of the most important (and most noble) applications of Lean. Daily...

tl;dr summary: The blog post discusses the importance of reporting and solving problems for patient safety in Japan. It highlights stories from two hospitals...

The theme for the next couple of days on the blog is patient safety and the idea of "psychological safety" for employees or physicians...