Quality improvement approaches in Japanese hospitals It probably surprises many Westerners, where books such as Lean Hospitals by Mark Graban and organizations such as Thedacare and Virginia Mason are well known, to learn that the practice of […]
It’s been a busy few weeks for me filled with great learning and travel! But all of this “doing” also means that I haven’t been able to keep up with writing. I’m about to jump […]
Data and measurement are key components to improvement. As I wrote about in my previous two blog posts, a Tokyo hospital that I visited twice last month (both for a short site visit and discussion with the President, […]
When I met with the President of a Tokyo metropolitan hospital a few weeks ago, he invited me to attend upcoming monthly Quality Committee held monthly. The next meeting was less than two weeks later, […]
Two weeks ago, I visited a hospital in Tokyo that is one of the leaders in Japan in healthcare quality improvement and reporting. As I’ve written about in the past, both on my blog and in […]
As part of my week of healthcare related conferences in Japan several weeks ago, I traveled to Fukuoka to attend the 3rd Conference for Healthcare (CHC). The conference is jointly hosted by Aso Iizuka Hospital, which I visited in […]
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