MedAssets helps healthcare organizations of all size and type enhance financial strength through innovative revenue cycle, spend and clinical resource management solutions that enable improved margins, cash flow, quality of care and patient satisfaction.

Our unparalleled innovation enables more than 4,200 hospitals and 100,000 non-acute healthcare providers gain sustainable performance improvement that is unattainable through more traditional business models.

Founded in 2009, KaiNexus is a technology company that aims to solve one of the most vexing problems for healthcare organizations today - increasing quality while decreasing cost.  KaiNexus makes improvement easier™ through web-based software that helps manage all facets of an improvement program, including daily improvement, events, and projects.  KaiNexus provides the backbone to initiate, manage, spread, and sustain continuous improvement efforts.

The KaiNexus platform is currently being used in about a dozen medical centers, some of which include Vanderbilt University Medical Center, University of North Carolina, Cook Children’s (TX), and Presbyterian Healthcare Services (NM).  Co-founder and CEO Gregory Jacobson, MD, has published on the use of lean and continuous improvement methods in the Journal Academic Emergency Medicine ("Kaizen: A Method of Process Improvement in the Emergency Department").  KaiNexus’ Chief Improvement Officer Mark Graban has published his second book, Healthcare Kaizen.

Author of two Shingo prize winning works, Naida L. Grunden has been a professional writer for more than 20 years. Naida has spent the past decade documenting the increasing acceptance of Toyota-based processes (Lean) in healthcare. Her first book, The Pittsburgh Way to Efficient Healthcare, captured the seminal work of the Pittsburgh Regional Health Initiative (PRHI) during the introduction of Lean in competing hospitals across southwestern Pennsylvania. She received the American College of Clinical Engineering challenge award for her contribution to the clinical engineering profession.

 

Her most recent endeavor in collaboration with HPP President Charles Hagood, Lean-Led Hospital Design: Creating the Efficient Hospital of the Future, places the spotlight on the facilities within which healthcare is delivered to patients. It was recently awarded the Shingo Prize for its thorough analysis and justification of why facility design is critical to improving processes of care.

 

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