Comments on: Gaining a Problem Consciousness http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/500 A blog about improvement in health care Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:18:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Ed McKlousky http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/500/comment-page-1#comment-5764 Ed McKlousky Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:58:49 +0000 http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/500#comment-5764 It will be interesting to see as healthcare moves towards greater transparency (even if it is forced) if this will change. From my experience, most of the managers really have no concept of how their unit is truly functioning. I have seen in a lot of cases that hospitals just throw money at the problem. Perhaps money in healthcare is similar to inventory in a factory. It is not until you start lowering the level that you become aware of all of the problems hiding underneath. It will be interesting to see as healthcare moves towards greater transparency (even if it is forced) if this will change. From my experience, most of the managers really have no concept of how their unit is truly functioning.

I have seen in a lot of cases that hospitals just throw money at the problem. Perhaps money in healthcare is similar to inventory in a factory. It is not until you start lowering the level that you become aware of all of the problems hiding underneath.

]]> By: I see a problem here, and here, and here, and here… « Engineering industry since 2008 http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/500/comment-page-1#comment-5753 I see a problem here, and here, and here, and here… « Engineering industry since 2008 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:17:13 +0000 http://www.dailykaizen.org/archives/500#comment-5753 [...] see a problem here, and here, and here, and here… Problem consciousness, crafting an environment where everyone seeks out problems, it makes sense. The challenge is to [...] [...] see a problem here, and here, and here, and here… Problem consciousness, crafting an environment where everyone seeks out problems, it makes sense. The challenge is to [...]

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