Tag: Physician

In recent years, healthcare providers increasingly want you to do an "online check in" prior to your appointment. I can see the benefits --...

In this post, I look at the impact (or lack thereof) of targets, rankings, and incentives, when it comes to safe driving or PCI (angioplasty) procedures in a hospital cath lab. Are we improving? How do we know? How do we improve?

You might remember my post from June about an emergency physician who wrote a journal article bashing "Lean" -- but what he described didn't...

Now, there’s a story written by an emergency medicine physician, Dr. Brad Cotton, that appears in a publication called “Emergency Medicine News” — FIRST PERSON: ‘We Fired Our Hospital’...

As is often the case, I have too many open browser tabs full of articles that I was going to potentially blog about. This slows...

Today, I'm sharing a link to some free "Lean 101" material that the AMA has created for physicians. I'm not sure when this initiative launched, but I just learned about it... the AMA is offering some online education about Lean in healthcare...

Joining me for episode #230 is Paul DeChant, MD, MBA to talk about reducing burnout, especially physician burnout, through Lean. Paul (see his bio here) is the...

In American healthcare, there's a growing gap between hospitals and clinics that are being innovative and those who are stuck in the "way it's...

Joining me for episode #222 of the podcast is Erin S. DuPree, M.D., FACOG, the Chief Medical Officer and Vice President for the Joint Commission...

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,...

I was on a long flight the other day and I watched an episode of the ABC comedy Black-ish. In episode 3 of the...

Call me old fashioned, but I figure any employee who works a full day deserves proper breaks, including a lunch break. This is true...