Releasing time to care is a program, based on lean, that was started in the British NHS.

This video shows how one hospital in Auckland is engaging front line staff to better understand their work and to eliminate waste, freeing up more time for patient care.

As part of its lean transformation, a Nexteer Automotive plant in Saginaw, MI, is using video and motion analysis software developed for athletes to improve the motions of people and machines.

In this video, John Toussaint, a co-author of the LEI publication On the Mend: Revolutionizing Healthcare to Save Lives and Transform the Industry, talks about a story from his tenure as CEO. It's a story about lean leadership and establishing a culture that focuses on process improvement instead of blaming individuals.

Instead of requiring patients to move from department to department to receive their care, a process typical in most cancer centers, the team created the "non-moving patient" care model. In the new Frauenshuh Cancer Center at Park Nicollet, patients remain in their own comfortable room with views of a healing garden, while caregivers come to them. Services rendered in the patient's room include: lab draws, nursing assessment, physician exam, IV therapy administration and the scheduling of future appointments.

This is a follow-up interview with Eric Ries, the presenter at the webinarLessons Learned by Lean Start-Ups.

Carolyn Clancy, the director of AHRQ, visited ThedaCare recently. John Toussaint blogged about her visit and took these videos:

The Dennis Quaid Foundation was involved in the production of a new documentary called “Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm”.

While not mentioning lean, there is a very compatible message about the widespread medical harm problem being "bad systems" not "bad people." You'll see many of the leading voices in the patient safety movement including Dr. Don Berwick, Dr. Lucian Leape, Carolyn Clancy, and others. This aired originally 4/24/10 and airs again 5/1/10 on  Discovery.

Links to the different sections of online video.

• Part 1 
• Part 2 
• Part 3 
• Part 4

LEI Senior Fellow Mark Graban interviews Dr. Sami Bahri, D.D.S., "The World's First Lean Dentist" and author of "Follow the Learner" from LEI.

In the video, Dr. Bahri discusses what he has seen and learned recently from touring manufacturing plants. He also talks about the importance of applying single-piece flow to your core processes (in his case, his patient flow).

In this two-hour seminar recorded live, lean management thought leader James Womack explains how to manage and lead in a lean management system, the successor to obsolete “modern management” methods.