Health systems need to move beyond resource-based scheduling

• • • •

Watching the tennis matches at Wimbledon over the last couple of weeks has inspired me to try and play a bit more often in order to improve my erratic, “weekend-warrior” level of play. The challenge is in reserving a tennis court at a convenient time — early mornings or evenings during the weekend when it… Read More

Mohan Giridharadas

Mohan Giridharadas

Founder & CEO, LeanTaaS
Former Sr. Partner at McKinsey and Co.LeanTaaS
Mohan Giridharadas is an accomplished expert in lean methodologies. During his 18-year career at McKinsey & Company (where he was a senior partner/director for six years), he co-created the lean service operations practice and ran the North American lean manufacturing and service operations practices and the Asia-Pacific operations practice. He has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies drive operational efficiency with lean practices. As Founder and CEO of LeanTaaS- a Silicon Valley-based innovator of cloud-based solutions to healthcare's biggest challenges -Mohan works closely with dozens of leading healthcare institutions including Stanford Health Care, UCHealth, NewYork-Presbyterian, Cleveland Clinic, MD Anderson and more. Mohan holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, MS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Stanford GSB. He is on the faculty of Continuing Education at Stanford University and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and has been named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top entrepreneurs innovating in Healthcare.
Mohan Giridharadas

Latest posts by Mohan Giridharadas (see all)

LeanTaaS Welcomes Katherine Halverson-Carpenter

LeanTaaS welcomes Katherine Halverson-Carpenter to the team as Vice President, Clinical Operations. Katherine brings more than two decades of experience managing perioperative services at leading healthcare organizations across the nation to her role at LeanTaaS. Most recently, she was the Executive Director of Perioperative Services at UCHealth, University of Colorado Hospital. Prior to that, she… Read More

Mohan Giridharadas

Mohan Giridharadas

Founder & CEO, LeanTaaS
Former Sr. Partner at McKinsey and Co.LeanTaaS
Mohan Giridharadas is an accomplished expert in lean methodologies. During his 18-year career at McKinsey & Company (where he was a senior partner/director for six years), he co-created the lean service operations practice and ran the North American lean manufacturing and service operations practices and the Asia-Pacific operations practice. He has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies drive operational efficiency with lean practices. As Founder and CEO of LeanTaaS- a Silicon Valley-based innovator of cloud-based solutions to healthcare's biggest challenges -Mohan works closely with dozens of leading healthcare institutions including Stanford Health Care, UCHealth, NewYork-Presbyterian, Cleveland Clinic, MD Anderson and more. Mohan holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, MS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Stanford GSB. He is on the faculty of Continuing Education at Stanford University and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and has been named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top entrepreneurs innovating in Healthcare.
Mohan Giridharadas

Latest posts by Mohan Giridharadas (see all)

CHIME Survey Reveals CIO Perspective on the Optimal Path to Improved Operations and Increased Revenue

• • • • • • •

A recent survey of CHIME CIOs reveals a continued disconnect between the availability of EHR data and its ability to influence both revenue and operating margins in hospitals. The survey, conducted by CHIME and LeanTaaS, asked hospital CIOs five questions about their perceptions with regard to EHR data and attempts to increase both operating margins… Read More

Mohan Giridharadas

Mohan Giridharadas

Founder & CEO, LeanTaaS
Former Sr. Partner at McKinsey and Co.LeanTaaS
Mohan Giridharadas is an accomplished expert in lean methodologies. During his 18-year career at McKinsey & Company (where he was a senior partner/director for six years), he co-created the lean service operations practice and ran the North American lean manufacturing and service operations practices and the Asia-Pacific operations practice. He has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies drive operational efficiency with lean practices. As Founder and CEO of LeanTaaS- a Silicon Valley-based innovator of cloud-based solutions to healthcare's biggest challenges -Mohan works closely with dozens of leading healthcare institutions including Stanford Health Care, UCHealth, NewYork-Presbyterian, Cleveland Clinic, MD Anderson and more. Mohan holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, MS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Stanford GSB. He is on the faculty of Continuing Education at Stanford University and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and has been named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top entrepreneurs innovating in Healthcare.
Mohan Giridharadas

Latest posts by Mohan Giridharadas (see all)

Shaping the demand curve to improve asset utilization is a bit like playing Tetris

• • • • •

In a previous article, I talked about how higher “velocity” contributes to greater efficiencies in a healthcare operations setting. The key to increasing velocity is to focus on minimizing the non value-added time before attempting to improve the value-added time. It’s a bit like the video game Tetris. Almost every asset, machine or human, in… Read More

Mohan Giridharadas

Mohan Giridharadas

Founder & CEO, LeanTaaS
Former Sr. Partner at McKinsey and Co.LeanTaaS
Mohan Giridharadas is an accomplished expert in lean methodologies. During his 18-year career at McKinsey & Company (where he was a senior partner/director for six years), he co-created the lean service operations practice and ran the North American lean manufacturing and service operations practices and the Asia-Pacific operations practice. He has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies drive operational efficiency with lean practices. As Founder and CEO of LeanTaaS- a Silicon Valley-based innovator of cloud-based solutions to healthcare's biggest challenges -Mohan works closely with dozens of leading healthcare institutions including Stanford Health Care, UCHealth, NewYork-Presbyterian, Cleveland Clinic, MD Anderson and more. Mohan holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, MS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Stanford GSB. He is on the faculty of Continuing Education at Stanford University and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and has been named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top entrepreneurs innovating in Healthcare.
Mohan Giridharadas

Latest posts by Mohan Giridharadas (see all)

Improving Operational Efficiency in Healthcare

• • • • • • • • • •

The notion of improving operational efficiency is conspicuously absent from the healthcare debate — neither Obamacare nor the newly proposed GOP plan discusses the impact that a step-function improvement in efficiency could have on access to healthcare (through more capacity), quality of healthcare services (through reduced wait times for patients) or cost (through better utilization… Read More

Mohan Giridharadas

Mohan Giridharadas

Founder & CEO, LeanTaaS
Former Sr. Partner at McKinsey and Co.LeanTaaS
Mohan Giridharadas is an accomplished expert in lean methodologies. During his 18-year career at McKinsey & Company (where he was a senior partner/director for six years), he co-created the lean service operations practice and ran the North American lean manufacturing and service operations practices and the Asia-Pacific operations practice. He has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies drive operational efficiency with lean practices. As Founder and CEO of LeanTaaS- a Silicon Valley-based innovator of cloud-based solutions to healthcare's biggest challenges -Mohan works closely with dozens of leading healthcare institutions including Stanford Health Care, UCHealth, NewYork-Presbyterian, Cleveland Clinic, MD Anderson and more. Mohan holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, MS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Stanford GSB. He is on the faculty of Continuing Education at Stanford University and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and has been named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top entrepreneurs innovating in Healthcare.
Mohan Giridharadas

Latest posts by Mohan Giridharadas (see all)

Moving Beyond Dashboards for Healthcare IT

• • • • •

I think we can safely add “travel agent” to the list of anachronisms that have gradually receded from our collective consciousness. Along with pay phones, and at some point in the future, brick-and-mortar retail stores. One needn’t look far to see the humble travel agent’s replacement: hundreds of websites and mobile applications from which one… Read More

Mohan Giridharadas

Mohan Giridharadas

Founder & CEO, LeanTaaS
Former Sr. Partner at McKinsey and Co.LeanTaaS
Mohan Giridharadas is an accomplished expert in lean methodologies. During his 18-year career at McKinsey & Company (where he was a senior partner/director for six years), he co-created the lean service operations practice and ran the North American lean manufacturing and service operations practices and the Asia-Pacific operations practice. He has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies drive operational efficiency with lean practices. As Founder and CEO of LeanTaaS- a Silicon Valley-based innovator of cloud-based solutions to healthcare's biggest challenges -Mohan works closely with dozens of leading healthcare institutions including Stanford Health Care, UCHealth, NewYork-Presbyterian, Cleveland Clinic, MD Anderson and more. Mohan holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, MS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Stanford GSB. He is on the faculty of Continuing Education at Stanford University and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and has been named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top entrepreneurs innovating in Healthcare.
Mohan Giridharadas

Latest posts by Mohan Giridharadas (see all)

Improving Nurse Satisfaction Requires Root Cause Solutions

• • • • • • •

A recent RNnetwork survey found half of the nurses they surveyed (49.8 percent) have contemplated switching professions, with 27 percent citing overwork as the reason. In his analysis of this data (as reported by Kelly Gooch on Becker’s Hospital Review), RNnetwork President Eric Darienzo offered six ways healthcare organizations can create a nurse-friendly culture including… Read More

Mohan Giridharadas

Mohan Giridharadas

Founder & CEO, LeanTaaS
Former Sr. Partner at McKinsey and Co.LeanTaaS
Mohan Giridharadas is an accomplished expert in lean methodologies. During his 18-year career at McKinsey & Company (where he was a senior partner/director for six years), he co-created the lean service operations practice and ran the North American lean manufacturing and service operations practices and the Asia-Pacific operations practice. He has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies drive operational efficiency with lean practices. As Founder and CEO of LeanTaaS- a Silicon Valley-based innovator of cloud-based solutions to healthcare's biggest challenges -Mohan works closely with dozens of leading healthcare institutions including Stanford Health Care, UCHealth, NewYork-Presbyterian, Cleveland Clinic, MD Anderson and more. Mohan holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, MS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Stanford GSB. He is on the faculty of Continuing Education at Stanford University and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and has been named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top entrepreneurs innovating in Healthcare.
Mohan Giridharadas

Latest posts by Mohan Giridharadas (see all)

Infusion Scheduling is a Game of Tetris You Can Never Win

• • • •

If you’re of a certain age, you remember Tetris, a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Russian game designer Alexey Pajitnov. Back in 1984 – before “viral” anything was a thing – millions of people became obsessed (addicted?) to this simple game, which challenged players to stack blocks of different shapes and… Read More

Mohan Giridharadas

Mohan Giridharadas

Founder & CEO, LeanTaaS
Former Sr. Partner at McKinsey and Co.LeanTaaS
Mohan Giridharadas is an accomplished expert in lean methodologies. During his 18-year career at McKinsey & Company (where he was a senior partner/director for six years), he co-created the lean service operations practice and ran the North American lean manufacturing and service operations practices and the Asia-Pacific operations practice. He has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies drive operational efficiency with lean practices. As Founder and CEO of LeanTaaS- a Silicon Valley-based innovator of cloud-based solutions to healthcare's biggest challenges -Mohan works closely with dozens of leading healthcare institutions including Stanford Health Care, UCHealth, NewYork-Presbyterian, Cleveland Clinic, MD Anderson and more. Mohan holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, MS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Stanford GSB. He is on the faculty of Continuing Education at Stanford University and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and has been named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top entrepreneurs innovating in Healthcare.
Mohan Giridharadas

Latest posts by Mohan Giridharadas (see all)

Doing the math to reduce wasted time for healthcare delivery

• • • • • •

Excellent service processes are fast processes — this is the universal truth of service operations. Just as the water level in the bay hides the rocks from visibility, high levels of inventory mask underlying problems in manufacturing or logistics. Extending the analogy to service, long process times mask all kinds of service inefficiencies, such as… Read More

Mohan Giridharadas

Mohan Giridharadas

Founder & CEO, LeanTaaS
Former Sr. Partner at McKinsey and Co.LeanTaaS
Mohan Giridharadas is an accomplished expert in lean methodologies. During his 18-year career at McKinsey & Company (where he was a senior partner/director for six years), he co-created the lean service operations practice and ran the North American lean manufacturing and service operations practices and the Asia-Pacific operations practice. He has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies drive operational efficiency with lean practices. As Founder and CEO of LeanTaaS- a Silicon Valley-based innovator of cloud-based solutions to healthcare's biggest challenges -Mohan works closely with dozens of leading healthcare institutions including Stanford Health Care, UCHealth, NewYork-Presbyterian, Cleveland Clinic, MD Anderson and more. Mohan holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, MS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Stanford GSB. He is on the faculty of Continuing Education at Stanford University and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and has been named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top entrepreneurs innovating in Healthcare.
Mohan Giridharadas

Latest posts by Mohan Giridharadas (see all)

Using predictive analytics to avoid hospital layoffs

• • • • • • • •

It seems as if news about another hospital laying off workers–or worse, closing–hits the news everyday; at last count 21 hospitals stopped treating patients in 2016. Hospitals and healthcare systems across the country, including some of the largest, laid off thousands of employees. In November 2016 alone, 13 providers eliminated more than 1,000 jobs. In September,… Read More

Mohan Giridharadas

Mohan Giridharadas

Founder & CEO, LeanTaaS
Former Sr. Partner at McKinsey and Co.LeanTaaS
Mohan Giridharadas is an accomplished expert in lean methodologies. During his 18-year career at McKinsey & Company (where he was a senior partner/director for six years), he co-created the lean service operations practice and ran the North American lean manufacturing and service operations practices and the Asia-Pacific operations practice. He has helped numerous Fortune 500 companies drive operational efficiency with lean practices. As Founder and CEO of LeanTaaS- a Silicon Valley-based innovator of cloud-based solutions to healthcare's biggest challenges -Mohan works closely with dozens of leading healthcare institutions including Stanford Health Care, UCHealth, NewYork-Presbyterian, Cleveland Clinic, MD Anderson and more. Mohan holds a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, MS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from Stanford GSB. He is on the faculty of Continuing Education at Stanford University and UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and has been named by Becker’s Hospital Review as one of the top entrepreneurs innovating in Healthcare.
Mohan Giridharadas

Latest posts by Mohan Giridharadas (see all)