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"Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it." — Steve Chandler, Reinventing Yourself:...
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Healthcare – Creating Value for Patients Sometimes you just need to get a team together and improve. Here's a good example of use of A3 thinking to improve opioid prescribing in outpatient rheumatology. Reducing harm requires the conditions to speak up, raise concerns, and make mistakes. A study shows hospitals with high levels of psychological safety are more likely […]
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So, an engineer, an architect, and a nurse walk into a hospital… no, that's not a setup for the punchline to a joke. Today, in episode #355 of the podcast, I'm sharing three short conversations with three people who have very different backgrounds, but they still all ended up working to improve healthcare. We have […]
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The challenge with lean is that, despite its attraction to many executives who want to cut costs and increase productivity, a lean process doesn’t happen overnight. There are plenty of obstacles to overcome.
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The other, I stumbled across an old article that I remember, as it was published in the Wall Street Journal in 2004. The WSJ normally has a paywall, but this article is old enough that it's free to the general public (or at least I think it is): To Fix Health Care, Hospitals Take Tips […]
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Were you one of the 300+ lucky practitioners, data analysts, statisticians, improvement advisers, program managers, engineers, clinical directors, coordinators and quality professionals who attended the 2019 Minitab Insights Global Conference this past fall?
Don’t worry if you were unable to join — with the help of our expert Jenn Atlas, we’ve rounded up
the 5 Key Challenges and Learnings you need to know.
“Human work engineering” is neither a major in any university nor a job title I have ever encountered. As a specialty, it would integrate content currently filed under Human Factors, Ergonomics, Safety, Human-Machine Interfaces, Usability Engineering, Mistake-Proofing, and Jidoka into a consistent approach to production and service delivery. But wait! Isn’t it what Industrial Engineering […]
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“As many of us are wont to do, I reflected a bit over the holidays. As always, it wasn’t hard to find ample fodder on both sides of the hope vs despair ledger: we have so much cause for concern around us, but also plenty to rejoice about. […] This year’s reflection confirms what I’ve […]
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