Tag: Pharmacy

tl;dr: In this post, Mark delves into the detrimental effects of a punitive culture within healthcare, arguing for a shift towards a culture of...

I've held many roles in my pharmacy career that has spanned seventeen years now. I've been in formal leadership roles for more than fifteen years...

This is from the 3rd edition of my book Lean Hospitals. I've copied and pasted from the book with no additional edits, although I'll bold...

I'm overdue in writing more about my last trip to Japan a few months back. Today, I'll like to share some highlights from one organization we visited, Seki Chuo Hospital, which is located outside of Nagoya. I have visited this hospital in 2012 and 2014 and it's interesting to see how their approach to Total Quality Management (TQM), Lean, and Kaizen has progressed and evolved. I mentioned them in a 2014 post about "quality circles."

A few of you sent me this article... and you were correct to think I would be interested: "Inside Alabama's Auto Jobs Boom: Cheap Wages, Little Training, Crushed Limbs." What are the parallels and lessons for hospitals?

There's been a back and forth of views about the state of pediatric emergency medicine recently in the Wall St Journal. Let me start first,...

Here's another video in the series that Joe Swartz and I shot at Franciscan St. Francis Health back in October. See them all here or via a...

A few weeks back, I posted the first new video from my Healthcare Kaizen co-author's health system: "Endoscopy Nurses are "Kaizen Crazy" at Franciscan St....

Tomorrow, I'm leaving for Japan and I'll be with Kaizen Institute for our second Lean healthcare study tour (see a PDF about the trip). We have...

I wrote about Kaizen the other day on LinkedIn and the first comment was from Dr. Leke Agbejule, BPharm, MSc, PharmD, from South Florida: Very well said. As...

In case you missed it, see Saturday's post: "Why Toyota is Eliminating the Andon Cord from its Factories." As I occasionally do, today's post is...

Last month, I saw a headline flying around Twitter about a survey that says a majority of hospital pharmacies are embracing Lean. A statement...