KaiNexus Signs Formal Partnership Agreement with Leading Consulting Firm, HPP

March 11, 2013 - PRLog -- DALLAS – KaiNexus, a web and iOS-based software company that “makes improvement easier” for fifteen healthcare organizations across the United States, announced a new partnership agreement with Healthcare Performance Partners (HPP), a leading consulting group offering Lean Healthcare and Six Sigma consulting services, training, and tools.

In the partnership, HPP will introduce KaiNexus software to their clients, as the technology supports their clients’ improvement needs and supports HPP in their consulting efforts. KaiNexus is providing training and support to HPP team members and will make referrals to HPP when KaiNexus customers need consulting support.

Gregory Jacobson, MD, CEO of KaiNexus commented, “KaiNexus allows an organization to engage staff and create collaborative and transparent ways to manage improvement work across an organization.  The expertise of HPP, combined with our technology, will be a powerful mix to create a culture of continuous improvement in healthcare organizations.”

Charles Hagood, president of HPP, said, “Our experience has shown that one of the key predictors of success and long term sustainability for a lean healthcare transformation is the effective engagement of the front lines in daily problem solving.  KaiNexus offers our clients a proven and efficient model for driving that engagement over time.”

Mark Graban, chief improvement officer at KaiNexus, stated, “I have known the team at HPP for many years, including Hagood and Dr. David Munch, their chief clinical officer. They are well respected in the lean healthcare profession and we, at KaiNexus, are more than confident in their ability to help health systems improve in meaningful and measurable ways.”

The KaiNexus software platform, which is based upon the proven improvement principles of “kaizen,” has been proven to assist in an organization’s continued innovation and improvement efforts by identifying and implementing a large number of small, low-cost, low-risk ideas that are identified and implemented primarily by front-line staff.  Additionally, KaiNexus has modules to manage “kaizen events” and larger-scale Lean projects.

Kaizen is a core part of the “Lean” management philosophy, based on the practices of Toyota and other leading companies, that has been embraced by leading healthcare systems around the world. The concepts are presented more fully in Graban’s book Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements.

The KaiNexus software platform is intended to reduce unnecessary costs accrued by the United States health care system, which squanders $750 billion a year – roughly 30 cents of every medicinal dollar – through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste, according to a report published earlier this month by the Institute of Medicine. KaiNexus is also currently pursuing deals with health systems in Europe, as the cost and quality problems faced by the American health system are also a major issue in other countries.      

To learn more about HPP, visit their website at http://www.hpp.bz.

About KaiNexus

Founded in 2009, KaiNexus “makes improvement easier (http://kainexus.com/home.html)” 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 fifteen healthcare organizations, including University of North Carolina Health Care System, University of Michigan Health System, Presbyterian Healthcare Services (New Mexico), Cook Children’s Health System, and Centra Health, as well as a trucking and logistics company.

For more information, visit http://www.KaiNexus.com or find 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, (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1553-2712.20...)” published in the journal Academic Emergency Medicine.

Contact Information:

Gregory Jacobson, MD

Website: www.KaiNexus.com

Email: info@KaiNexus.com

Phone: (469) 454-8055