Gregory Jacobson, MD, from KaiNexus, presents tips and ideas about improvement principles based on Lean and kaizen. This video discusses the need to look at data and use data to validate improvements.

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Mark Graban, from KaiNexus, presents tips and ideas about improvement principles based on Lean and kaizen.

There's an old expression that gets used alot in quality improvement work: Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. People, especially in healthcare, often put pressure on themselves to keep thinking about the solution until they come up with something that solves the problem 100% with absolute certainty... but solutions like that usually don't exist.

KaiNexus makes improvement happen through a web-based software platform that helps you manage innovation and improvement efforts.

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Mark Graban blogs daily at http://www.leanblog.org and he is the author of the book "Lean Hospitals: improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement" http://www.leanhospitalsbook.com and "Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements" http://www.HCkaizen.com.

Gregory Jacobson, MD, from KaiNexus, presents tips and ideas about improvement principles based on Lean and kaizen.

Using KaiNexus is meant to support other types of communication, to include everyone in the process, and to track and spread improvement... all leading to a more effective improvement process.

KaiNexus makes improvement happen through a web-based software platform that helps you manage innovation and improvement efforts.

Learn more about software platform at http://www.kainexus.com

More videos will come in this series, so please subscribe to the KaiNexus YouTube channel.

Mark Graban, from KaiNexus, presents tips and ideas about improvement principles based on Lean and kaizen.

Practicing kaizen every day is about finding the small problems that interfere with our work or patient care. Lots of times, we might face a really small problem, something that interrupts us or delays patient care for just a minute... and then we go on with our day. We might think it's just not a big deal... it's just normal.

KaiNexus makes improvement happen through a web-based software platform that helps you manage innovation and improvement efforts.

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Mark Graban blogs daily at http://www.leanblog.org and he is the author of the book "Lean Hospitals: improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement" http://www.leanhospitalsbook.com and "Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements" http://www.HCkaizen.com.

Gregory Jacobson, MD, from KaiNexus, presents tips and ideas about improvement principles based on Lean and kaizen. This video discusses looking at opportunities to improve systems and processes rather than blaming individuals for problems that we face in healthcare.

In this video, Greg talks about the need to give a FAST response to staff ideas. In the outdated suggestion box model, ideas might sit for weeks or months. In a Kaizen-style improvement system, leaders realize that staff have a right to fast feedback and collaboration... that's the only way to make improvement happen.

KaiNexus makes improvement happen through a web-based software platform that helps you manage innovation and improvement efforts.

Learn more about software platform at http://www.kainexus.com

Mark Graban, from KaiNexus, presents tips and ideas about improvement principles based on Lean and kaizen.

In this video, Mark answers a question we hear all the time - what happens if you identify a problem (an Opportunity for Improvement) but you don't have a solution? That's OK, submit the OI to get the improvement process started!

KaiNexus makes improvement happen through a web-based software platform that helps you manage innovation and improvement efforts.

Learn more about software platform at http://www.kainexus.com

More videos will come in this series, so please subscribe to the KaiNexus YouTube channel.

Mark Graban blogs daily at http://www.leanblog.org and he is the author of the book "Lean Hospitals: improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement" http://www.leanhospitalsbook.com and "Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements" http://www.HCkaizen.com.

Gregory Jacobson, MD, from KaiNexus, presents tips and ideas about improvement principles based on Lean and kaizen. In this video, Greg talks about the need for improvement to happen continually -- every week or even every day -- in healthcare organizations. Continuous improvement is what KaiNexus is all about.

KaiNexus makes improvement happen through a web-based software platform that helps you manage innovation and improvement efforts.

Learn more about software platform at http://www.kainexus.com

More videos will come in this series, so please subscribe to the KaiNexus YouTube channel.

Mark Graban, from KaiNexus, presents tips and ideas about improvement principles based on Lean and kaizen.

In this video, the principles of "kaizen" that are embedded into KaiNexus are compared to the dysfunctions of older suggestion box systems.

KaiNexus makes improvement happen through a web-based software platform that helps you manage innovation and improvement efforts.

Learn more about software platform at http://www.kainexus.com

More videos will come in this series, so please subscribe to the KaiNexus YouTube channel.

Mark Graban blogs daily at http://www.leanblog.org and he is the author of the book "Lean Hospitals: improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement" http://www.leanhospitalsbook.com and "Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements" http://www.HCkaizen.com.

Gregory Jacobson, MD, from KaiNexus, presents tips and ideas about improvement principles based on Lean and kaizen.

This video talks about the role of supervisors in kaizen. Instead of just saying "yes or no" to ideas, the supervisor and manager has to work with employees, collaborating and finding a solution that can be implemented to address the problem that was identified in the opportunity for improvement.

KaiNexus makes improvement happen through a web-based software platform that helps you manage innovation and improvement efforts.

Learn more about software platform at http://www.kainexus.com

More videos will come in this series, so please subscribe to the KaiNexus YouTube channel.

Mark Graban, from KaiNexus, presents tips and ideas about improvement principles based on Lean and kaizen. In this video, Mark talks about how hospital staff and leaders can identify "waste," or non-value added steps, in their own work.

KaiNexus makes improvement happen through a web-based software platform that helps you manage innovation and improvement efforts.

Learn more about software platform at http://www.kainexus.com

More videos will come in this series, so please subscribe to the KaiNexus YouTube channel.

Mark Graban blogs daily at http://www.leanblog.org and he is the author of the book "Lean Hospitals: improving Quality, Patient Safety, and Employee Engagement" http://www.leanhospitalsbook.com and "Healthcare Kaizen: Engaging Front-Line Staff in Sustainable Continuous Improvements" http://www.HCkaizen.com.