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Standards, Part 1

To help doctors accept standardization, play some blues

Bruce Hamilton
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Fri, 12/09/2011 - 12:36
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I attended a gathering of health care providers recently to participate in a site review and listen to some nice Toyota Production System (TPS) success stories. During a Q&A session at the conclusion of the review, this question came from one of the participants:
“How can we get the docs to accept standardization?”

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Submitted by randola on Mon, 12/12/2011 - 10:38

Great Analogy

Wow, great way to look at it. Within the standards are an unbelievable amount of ways to think outside the box and create. There is a heck of a lot of difference between the notes George Thorogood would pick vs the notes that Robben Ford would pick, and the tools would vary too.

Great article!

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