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Tag Archives: Health care
Robots for Health Care from Toyota
Japan has an extremely rapidly aging population. This increases the need for health care and for assistance with everyday tasks from the elderly. Japan is also among the leading countries for developing robots for health care and living assistance. I … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, IT
Tagged engineering, Health care, Innovation, Japan, long term thinking, system thinking, Toyota
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Understanding Design of Experiments (DoE) in Protein Purification
This webcast, from GE Life Sciences, seeks to provide an understanding Design of Experiments (DoE) using an example of protein purification. It begins with a good overview of the reason why multi-factorial experiments must be used while changing multiple factors … Continue reading
Posted in Design of Experiments
Tagged Data, Design of Experiments, experiments, Health care, robust, Six sigma
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Decades Later The USA Health Care System is Still a Deadly Disease for Our Economy
Decades ago W. Edwards Deming named 7 deadly diseases of western management. One of those was excessive health care costs. Sadly that deadly disease has become much worse in the last several decades. Americans pay 300% more for this prostate … Continue reading
Posted in Competition, Economics, Health care
Tagged deadly diseases, Deming, Economics, government, Health care, patent
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Getting Retweeted by Marc Andreessen Generated a Flood of Retweets
On Twitter today I was getting more than 30 times the notifications I normally get. So I took a look to see what is going on. One of my tweets was getting retweeted and liked quite a lot (nearly 100 … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, Science
Tagged Fun, Health care, Innovation, internet
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Visual Management and Mistake-Proofing for Prescription Pills
Good ideas often just require some sensible thought to think of an improved approach. Management concepts can help guide such thinking, such as mistake-proofing and visual management. To apply visual management requires giving a bit of thought to how to … Continue reading
Some Thoughts on Investing from My Recent Interview
In the first few years of this blog I posted occasionally, but still much more than the last few years, on investing and economics. Now I mainly post on those topics on the Curious Cat Investing and Economics blog (see … Continue reading
Posted in Health care, Investing
Tagged Apple, Google, Health care, Investing, John Hunter
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Management Blog Review 2012: Gemba Walkabout
This is my second, of two, 2012 management blog review posts. In this post I look back at the last year on Mike Stoecklein’s Gemba Walkabout blog. Mike is the Director of Network Operations at Thedacare Center for Healthcare Value. … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Deming, Health care, Process improvement
Tagged Deming, Health care, Process improvement, Quality tools
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Management Blog Review 2012: Not Running a Hospital
Paul Levy started the Running a Hospital blog when he was the CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Thankfully he has continued the blog, renamed to Not Running a Hospital, after leaving that position. Paul provides a huge number … Continue reading
USA Spent $2.6 Trillion, $8,402 per person,17.9% of GDP on Medical Expenses in 2010
The federal government financed 29% of total health spending in 2010, a substantial increase from its share of 23% in 2007. Meanwhile, the shares of the total health care bill financed by state and local governments (16%), private businesses (21%), and households (28%) declined during the same time period. Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Health care, Systems thinking
Tagged business, economic data, Economics, economy, Health care, health care system, USA
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Management Improvement Blog Carnival #150
Mark Graban is hosting Management Improvement Blog Carnival #150 on the Lean Blog, highlights include: Watching Waste in the ER! – As part of his relatively new blog, Anthony Scott (Frontline Lean) writes about his experiences with waste in an … Continue reading
Posted in Carnival, Lean thinking, Management
Tagged Health care, Lean thinking, management
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