Process Improvement

8 Waste in Healthcare

Value to the Customer


Articles/Blog
- What is Lean Healthcare? – NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery
- Lean Blog – Mark Graban
- MLC Blog – Michigan Lean Consortium
- KaiNexus Blog: Everything Continuous Improvement – KaiNexus
- Lean Frontiers Blog – Lean Frontiers
- Importance of Health Information in Performance Excellence and Process Improvement – Santosh Mudiraj, MBBS, MPH
- Theory of Constraints – Lean Production
- All About Theory of Constraints – Smartsheets
Books
- The Lean Six Sigma Pocket Toolbook: A Quick Reference Guide to 100 Tools for Improving Quality and Speed – Michael George
- Kaizen: The Key To Japan’s Competitive Success – Masaaki Imai
- The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World’s Greatest Manufacturer – Jeffrey Liker
- Toyota Kata – Mike Rother
- Lean Hospitals – Mark Graban
- The Outstanding Organization – Karen Martin
- Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn – Katie Andersen
- The Power of Business Process Improvement: 10 Simple Steps to Increase Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Adaptability – Susan Page
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement – Eliyahu M. Goldratt & Jeff Cox
- The Lean Startup – Eric Ries
- Hardwiring Excellence: Purpose, Worthwhile Work, Making a Difference – Quint Studer
- What is Lean Six Sigma? – with Rick Murrow – iSixSigma
- Lean Six Sigma in 8 Minutes – Simplilearn
- User Value and Continuous Improvement – ‘The Clinician’s Perspective’ – In2being, LLC – MedTech Crossroads Series – Santosh Mudiraj, MBBS, MPH
- Yellow Belt
- Green Belt
- Black Belt
- Master Black Belt
- Dr. W Edwards Deming
- Henry Ford
- Taiichi Ohno
- Eiji Toyoda
- Shigeo Shingo
- Quint Studer
- Mark Graban
- Karen Martin
- Deondra Wardelle
- Katie Andersen