Tag: Value Stream Mapping

Lean Healthcare “Success” Without Benefits? What?

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I saw the following in a submission for a session at the 2012 Society for Health Systems conference, where I'm the Lean track chair. One...

Warning: You Can’t Even Draw a Map with this “Value Stream...

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If you are a Twitter user and follow the #Lean hashtag on Twitter, you might have seen a lot of noise from a company...

Denver Health’s Lean Patient Safety Improvements on PBS’ NewsHour

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On June 30, the PBS NewsHour program did a 7-minute story on healthcare improvement (featuring Lean and Toyota methods) at Denver Health. You can also...

Guest Post: The Chain of Improvement

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Mark's note: Today's guest post is from  Dr. Mark Jaben. I first met Mark in person at  Cindy Jimmerson's Lean Healthcare West conference in...

Audio Story w Pictures: Lean at Virginia Mason Medical Center &...

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Here is a video from the St. Louis Beacon (actually, an NPR-style audio story with pictures) about Lean healthcare at Virginia Mason Medical Center,...

From SHS: Ohio Health Reduces Surgical Site Infections Using Lean

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A few weeks back, I attended the Society for Health Systems (SHS) Conference in Orlando, where I chaired the Patient Flow track. There were...

10 Key Lean Mindsets for Healthcare

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I really enjoyed having the chance to be in Cincinnati yesterday to participate in a Lean Healthcare workshop put on by TechSolve, a non-profit...

St. Louis Paper Features Lean at Barnes-Jewish Hospital

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Just before the new year, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch featured the Lean efforts at Barnes-Jewish Hospital ("St. Louis hospital among handful using efficiency to...

Guest Post: Lean Value Streams

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Mark's note: Today is the first of what might be a regular series of guest posts from the team at Lean Pathways, Inc., including...

Don’t Speed Up or Improve a Workaround Process – Fix the...

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Hospitals are full of workarounds and fire fighting, it's a pretty common problem. That's one reason cost is so high and quality is often...

Another Annual Update on a New Zealand Emergency Department

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It seems to be an annual event to see a news story about a New Zealand emergency department, Dunedin Hospital (not pictured at left)...

Management Improvement Carnival #111

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Again, I'm very happy to host the Carnival for  John Hunter and his  Curious Cat blog. My job here is to share some noteworthy...