Healthcare Kaizen in the News
This page highlights media coverage, interviews, and articles featuring Healthcare Kaizen and its authors. The links below reflect independent reporting, commentary, and conversations about Kaizen, Lean healthcare, and continuous improvement in practice.
Media Coverage of “Healthcare Kaizen” and the Authors
- Quality Digest, Putting the ‘Continuous’ Back into Health Care Improvement, Mark Graban and Gregory Jacobson, MD
- Healthcare Technology Online, “Kaizen: The Key To Lean Healthcare?“
- MedCity News, “How hospitals are implementing lean healthcare practices“
- “Not Running a Hospital” (blog): Paul Levy’s Review of Chapter 1
- Colorado Today, Radio Interview with Mark
- Indy Star, Globally renowned business expert to visit Franciscan St. Francis Health — Article after visit
- KFWB 980 AM News/Talk Los Angeles, Improving Employee Satisfaction with Kaizen – Mark interviewed – (Audio)
- Lean Healthcare Expert, Mark Graban, to Moderate CEO Panel at Lean Healthcare Transformation Summit
- The American Innovator Podcast – Mark and Joe (Audio, Part 1 | Part 2)
- WSIE 88.7 FM NPR Southern Illinois, Mark interviewed about emergency department improvements – Part 1 MP3 | Part 2 MP3
- Business901 Podcast with Joe Dager, Mark and Joe (Listen | Transcript)
- Press Release about the Book’s Release
- San Antonio News Express-News, Author encourages kaizen methods to improve healthcare
- Quality Digest Live, coverage of the book’s release (start of the June 29, 2012 episode)
- Quality Digest Live, interview with Mark Graban (July 6, 2012)
- 103.7 FM “The Mountain – Seattle, “Conversations with Lizz Sommars,” interview with Mark Graban (July 8, 2012) – MP3 Audio
- “The Powerful Patient” – BlogTalkRadio, interview with Mark (July 12, 2012) – Audio
- The Visual Workplace w/ Gwendolyn Galsworth – Voice America, interview with Mark (July 24, 2012) – Listen
- Virginia Mason Blog: Could this new book help drive your lean journey?
- Healthcare Design – Review of Healthcare Kaizen
- Healthcare Kaizen – A Review by Miguel Burbano and Whitney Churchill
- Business901 Blog (Joe Dager) – Thoughts on Healthcare Kaizen (Review)
- Minding Your Business Radio (Robbin Block) – It’s Not Easy Being Lean. Kaizen and the Art of Continuous Improvement (MP3)
- Premissi Magazine (Finland), “When a Fault is System,” interview with Mark Graban
- Portland Book Review – review of the book
- Franciscan St. Francis Press Release, “St. Francis Health business expert’s book notches national accolades,” featuring Joe Swartz
- Boston.com, “Healthcare Kaizen” by Mark Graban and Joseph Swartz Receives Prestigious Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award“
- LeanBlog Podcast (Mark Graban) – Interview with Joe Swartz – Show Page | MP3
- Press Release, “Five Productivity Press Books Receive Shingo Prize,” (January 15, 2014)
- Gemba Academy Podcast, “GA 156 | The Current State of Lean in Healthcare with Mark Graban and Joe Swartz,” (March 2017)
The media coverage above reflects growing interest in Kaizen and continuous improvement in healthcare, as well as the experiences of organizations putting these ideas into practice. If you’d like to explore the concepts, methods, and leadership behaviors in more depth, we invite you to learn more about Healthcare Kaizen and The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen.