KaiNexus and Gemba Academy Announce New Partnership Relationship

Aug. 15, 2012 - PRLog -- Dallas, Texas -- KaiNexus, a web and iOS-based software company that makes improvement easier for healthcare organizations, announced a new partnership with Gemba Academy, a leading provider of quality online video training on the Lean and Six Sigma methodologies.

As part of this agreement, KaiNexus will make its existing customer base aware of Gemba Academy’s video module subscriptions and Gemba Academy will be informing their healthcare customers about the capabilities of the KaiNexus software platform.

Gregory Jacobson, co-founder and chief executive officer of KaiNexus “couldn’t be happier” about the partnership, adding that “partnering with GA is really a win-win for all of our customers.  It allows KaiNexus to focus on our core mission of providing an amazing electronic platform for improvement work based on Lean and kaizen principles and it provides our customers an excellent and cost-effective way to obtain great Lean training videos.”

Gemba Academy’s Kevin Meyer said, "KaiNexus has created a unique system for capturing and leveraging improvement activities in healthcare environments.  This will create additional value for our healthcare customers in their Lean transformations."

KaiNexus’ co-founder and chief technology officer Matt Paliulis commented that he is “excited to be working with Gemba Academy” and “their expertise and the quality of their products are second to none." Paliulis added, "Gemba Academy's offerings complement KaiNexus and vice-versa. Their educational content provides the know-how to use KaiNexus to it's fullest potential."

Mark Graban, KaiNexus’ chief improvement officer, stated, “Our partnership with Gemba Academy will bring highly credible and engaging educational content to our customers, adding value regardless of where they are in their improvement journey.”

KaiNexus software is based upon the proven improvement principles of “kaizen,” which focuses on identifying and implementing a large number of small, low-cost, low-risk ideas that come primarily from front-line staff. Kaizen is a core part of the “lean” management philosophy that has been embraced by leading healthcare systems around the world and the concepts are presented more fully in Graban’s book Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements.

About Gemba Academy

The mission of Gemba Academy LLC is to provide high quality online video training for individuals and groups. By leveraging leading edge technologies such as high definition (HD) video delivered via a global network of servers on high bandwidth connections, we can deliver high quality training, on demand, anywhere in the world.

Gemba Academy was created by three of the leading providers of business transformation knowledge and services, LSS Academy, Kaizen Institute, and Factory Strategies Group. Our experience and networks allows us to tap into the best content and knowledge resources. Learn more at http://www.GembaAcademy.com.

About KaiNexus

Founded in 2009, KaiNexus “makes improvement easier” for healthcare by facilitating communication throughout the entire organization with its web-based technology.  KaiNexus helps initiate, manage, and spread ideas that come from clinicians and front-line staff, streamlining the management process required for continuous improvement to thrive.  It is built for the realities of today’s complex healthcare organizations, helping better facilitate staff and physician-driven continuous improvement efforts.

The KaiNexus platform has been in use by multiple departments throughout the Vanderbilt University Medical Center since early 2011, after they participated in the development of early versions of the software, starting in 2005.   KaiNexus is now in use in nine healthcare organizations, including University of North Carolina Health Care System, University of Michigan Health System, Presbyterian Healthcare Services (New Mexico), Cook Children’s and Centra Health.

For more information, visit http://www.KaiNexus.com or check out KaiNexus on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook.



Note to Editors

Gregory Jacobson MD, Co-Founder and CEO of KaiNexus, graduated from Washington University in St Louis in 1997 with a BS in Biology.  He attended Baylor College of Medicine from 1997 to 2001.  From 2001 to 2004, he completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center where he then stayed on as faculty.  Starting in 2004, it was his observation and research of operational inefficiencies and unrealized improvement opportunities that resulted in the creation of a rudimentary software tool at VUMC and, ultimately, the founding of KaiNexus. Jacobson is co-author of  “Kaizen: A Method of Process Improvement in the Emergency Department,” published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine.  

Contact Information
Gregory Jacobson, MD
Website: www.KaiNexus.com
Email: info@KaiNexus.com
Phone: (469) 454-8055