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)