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Lean Healthcare Overview Article in CFO Mag
Keen to Be Lean - CFO Magazine - December 2009 Issue - CFO.comI'll share the above link with little commentary for now, a nice overview of Lean Healthcare for CFO Magazine. I helped the writer with research and ended up being quoted a few times. No m...
The Latest on Reducing Preventable Infections - Boston, Appleton, and DC
We had some local Boston news about hospitals reducing infection rates, including dangerous blood stream infections that result from central lines.Several academic medical centers in Boston said the number of ICU patients contracting bloodstream infe...
NY Times on Standardization, Deming, and Lean Principles in Healthcare
If Health Care Is Going to Change, Dr. Brent James's Ideas Will Change It - NYTimes.com About 10 people sent me this article via the blog or Twitter, so thanks for that. Don't worry about duplication if you see stuff you think I'd be interested in re...
Womack & Jones at the Gemba: "Spread" and Innovation
Womack and Jones video on spread - Blog - ThedaCare Center for Healthcare ValueFrom John Toussaint's blog, this video starts with a question about (I'm paraphrasing) how do you balance continuous innovation (in how "Lean" works in a hospital) with th...
Lean & Collaborative Care at ThedaCare
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 at Thedacare. This is the same model that was featured a few months back o...
Executive from Seattle Children\'s on Lean Healthcare in the Washington Post
Patrick Hagan: Waste Not, Want Not: The Key to Reducing Costs - washingtonpost.comHere is an outstanding piece from the President & Chief Operating Officer of Seattle Children's Hospital, Pat Hagan. Coincidentally, I just recorded a podcast today...
The First "Live Tweeted" Hospital Rapid Improvement Event?
Check back for more details on Monday morning... the folks doing this are checking on a few details before making it this public or going ahead with it...Subscribe via RSS | Lean Blog Main Page | Podcast | Twitter @leanblogPlease check out my main b...
Free Access to John Toussaint's "Health Affairs" Article
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 "Health Affairs." You normally have to pay for the article, but the Lean Enterprise...
USA Today Features Lean in Hospitals
Hospital CEOs manage staff time, inventory to cut costs - USATODAY.comIt's nice to see a major publication covering Lean and, especially, Lean in healthcare. This time, it was USA Today who, again, did a better job than the WSJ normally does.The arti...
Quality and Cost Always Go Together with Lean Thinking
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 Management Budget wrote a piece in the WSJ about healthcare.He wrote:The good news is that there appear to be significant opportun...
ThedaCare News Coverage & More from Fox News
I'm just starting to watch these, but here is a link to FoxNews.com with five longer videos about ThedaCare and their quality and cost improvement efforts (and results).I thought last night's story (transcript) that aired on "On the Record" was certa...
ThedaCare and Lean to be Featured on Fox News
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 "On the Record" show with Greta Van Susteren visited Appleton, Wisconsin and ThedaCare, one of the leaders in applying t...
LeanBlog Podcast #72 - Dr. John Toussaint, Lean & Healthcare Reform
Our returning guest is John S. Toussaint, MD, the CEO emeritus of ThedaCare, and CEO of the ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value. In the interest of disclosure, he is a partner in our Lean Enterprise Institute efforts to promote Lean in healthcare.D...
"Dead by Mistake" Report Hits the News
As I had alluded to the other day, there was a huge investigative piece that ran across the country Sunday in the Hearst Newspapers. The main URL for the series is www.DeadByMistake.com.You can read all of the articles at the main site, but different...
National Patient Safety Day - Clarity in the Meaning
Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority Supports 'National Patient Safety Day' - Press Releases - CNBC.comI was walking through Boston Common this morning and saw a woman with a homemade sign that said something about patient safety. I stopped her and ...
Formal Announcement of LEI/ThedaCare Lean Healthcare Network
Thought I'd share this here on the blog even though many of you might have gotten an email from Helen Zak at the LEI about this:Dear Mark, No doubt you've heard and read a lot about the debate in Washington D.C. over healthcare reform. Like me, you'r...
National Hospital Week Billboard
Lean Leap to Health Care #8 (click for Part #7)by Scott McDuffee“When a baby is born, a pleasant chime can be heard throughout the hospital and smiles come across the faces of all who hear.”Now dated, I drove past a National Hospital Week billboa...
