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Executive Leadership
By Mark Graban
April 16, 2012
Dean Gruner, M.D., president and CEO of ThedaCare, tells the LeanBlog podcaster Mark Graban how the Wisconsin healthcare system is using Accountable Care Organizations with Lean methods to improve the coordination of care for patients.
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About Mark Graban
The Executive Guide to Healthcare Kaizen.” He serves as a consultant to healthcare organizations through his company, Constancy, Inc. and is also the Chief Improvement Officer of the technology company KaiNexus. Mark is the lead blogger and podcaster at his site, LeanBlog.org, started in 2005.
Mark has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Northwestern University and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.B.A. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Leaders for Global Operations Program.
Executive Leadership
