Resources

Lean and Healthcare

• Lean Enterprise Institute
• ThedaCare Center for Healthcare Value
• Healthcare Value Network
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement – “Going Lean in Healthcare”
• Lean in the National Health Service – U.K.
• Virginia Mason Production System
• Avera McKennan and LEAN

Healthcare Blogs and Sites

• Mark Graban’s Lean Blog – Healthcare
• Wachter’s World – The Hospitalist
• Running a Hospital
• Healthcare Management Blog
• Patient Safety Blog
• For a more complete list, via leanblog.org
• General Lean blog list. via leanblog.org

Patient Safety

• National Patient Safety Foundation
• Josie King Foundation
• Louise H. Batz Patient Safety Foundation
• PULSE – Persons United Limiting Substandards and Errors in Health Care
• Patient Safety Movement
• Mistake-Proofing the Design of Health Care Processes (AHRQ)
• Statistics on Healthcare Quality and Patient Safety Problems – Errors & Harm
• Other healthcare resources via leanblog.org