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Idea Card Example: No Time for Patients to Fill Out History

By Mark Graban Posted on March 27, 2012 Posted in Kaizens - Examples of Staff-Driven Kaizen Improvements, Patient Satisfaction

From Tom Byrne, MD: Here is an idea card for improving pt intake into practices. They have started sending out the forms for pts ahead of time and are tracking how many bring them in filled out, how many not …

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Visual Idea Board from Foundation Medical Partners

By Mark Graban Posted on March 27, 2012 Posted in Visual Idea Boards & Other Kaizen Boards
Visual Idea Board from Foundation Medical Partners

Submitted by Tom Byrne, MD: In December after watching Mark’s kaizen webinar, I made my own version of the idea card and convinced the manager where I was working (I cover for about 18 practices and was working there for …

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Conference Name Badges

By Mark Graban Posted on March 7, 2012 Posted in Easier Work, Kaizens - Examples of Staff-Driven Kaizen Improvements, Mark Graban, Visual Tagged with Badge, Conference

This is a Kaizen I implemented at the ASQ Lean and Six Sigma conference. Read more here at LeanBlog.org.

Bubbles for Babies

By Mark Graban Posted on March 7, 2012 Posted in Franciscan, Kaizens - Examples of Staff-Driven Kaizen Improvements, Patient Satisfaction, Radiology Tagged with Franciscan, Healthcare Kaizen, Patient, Radiology, Ultrasound

This is a kaizen from an ultrasound tech at Franciscan St. Francis (co-author Joe’s organization).

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