Tag: ThedaCare

Womack & Jones at the Gemba: “Spread” and Innovation

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Womack and Jones video on spread - Blog - ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value From John Toussaint's blog, this video starts with a question about...

Lean & Collaborative Care at ThedaCare

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Six Best Practice Elements of ThedaCare's Collaborative Care ModelHere's an article from Becker's Hospital Review about the six best practices of Lean-based Collaborative Care...

Exec from Seattle Children’s on Lean Healthcare in the Washington Post

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Patrick Hagan: Waste Not, Want Not: The Key to Reducing Costs - washingtonpost.comHere is an outstanding piece from the President & Chief Operating Officer...

The First "Live Tweeted" Hospital Rapid Improvement Event?

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Our friends at ThedaCare are running an experiment this week. One of their Rapid Improvement Event team members is going to send a few...

Free Access to John Toussaint’s "Health Affairs" Article

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Healthcare - "Writing The New Playbook For U.S. Health Care: Lessons From Wisconsin" John Toussaint just had a piece published in the influential peer-reviewed journal...

USA Today Features Lean in Hospitals

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Hospital CEOs manage staff time, inventory to cut costs - USATODAY.com It's nice to see a major publication covering Lean and, especially, Lean in healthcare....

Quality and Cost Always Go Together with Lean Thinking

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This is an old story, from May, that I've meant to write about for a while. Peter Orszag, the Director of the Office of...

All of the Fox News ThedaCare Videos

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Here are all of the videos, embedded from Fox News. Click here for a page with summaries of each.   As of October 2011, you can...

ThedaCare News Coverage & More from Fox News

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This is a big day for Lean in healthcare, as here is a link to FoxNews.com with five longer videos about ThedaCare and their...

ThedaCare and Lean to be Featured on Fox News

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Tune in TONIGHT, Friday August 21, 10 PM on Fox News Channel. See my blog post about the links to online video at FoxNews.com.The...

LeanBlog Podcast #72 – Dr. John Toussaint, Lean & Healthcare Reform

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Our returning guest is John S. Toussaint, MD, the CEO emeritus of ThedaCare, and CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value. In the...

"Dead by Mistake" Report Hits the News

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As I had alluded to the other day, there was a huge investigative piece that ran across the country Sunday in the Hearst Newspapers....