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Upcoming Seminars
Six Sigma Green Belt for Healthcare
Dec. 5-7
Norcross, Ga.
Corporate Training
IIE Courses can be customized to meet your company's needs through IIE's Corporate Training Program.
Contact Larry Aft, P.E. (770) 349-1130
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the Newsletter!
The SHS newsletter team is always on the lookout for new content relevant to professionals working in the healthcare improvement field. To contribute articles, interviews, book reviews, presentations, or to make staff aware of members in the news, ideas for future content, or other newsworthy content, please contact Bart Sellers.
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Announcing
NEWSHS blog website! We're excited to announce that SHS has launched a new blog website:
http://shsblog.org/
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Are you
LinkedIn® yet?
Click here to learn how healthcare performance improvement
professionals can join in and enjoy the advantages of the SHS
LinkedIn® Group.
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Lean service lines in healthcare
Er Ralston, vice president, client relationship executive, Juran Institute, Brian Stockhoff, senior consultant, Juran Institute
In this presentation at the 2011 SHS conference, the presenters describe how an integrated service line model and clinical care pathways provide an effective means for continuous improvement.
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Situational awareness and workload in the emergency department
Scott Levin, Ph.D., Lauren Sauer, M.S., Gabor Kelen, M.D., Thomas Kirsch, M.D., Julius Pham, M.D., Ph.D., Samit Desai, M.D., Daniel France Ph.D., M.P.H., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Scott Levin PhD, of Johns Hopkins delivered a paper and presentation at the 2011 SHS conference addressing workload factors affecting situational awareness in the ED. The paper is based on 50 hours of ED observation. Part of the research shows the relative frequency and duration for common ED nursing tasks.
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UCLA Health System features lean quality improvements in neurological ambulatory clinic services
The UCLA Health System website describes how the Department of Neurosurgery at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA the established a Lean Performance Improvement initiative to improve the foundational quality of care goal by reducing system-waste from a patient-centered perspective. The website features two case studies on the application of lean in an ambulatory clinic setting.
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Newly published book on healthcare delivery improvement
Management Engineering for Effective Healthcare Delivery: Principles and Applications ISBN13: 9781609608729
Author(s)/Editor(s): Alexander Kolker (Children's Hospital and Health System, Wisconsin); Pierce Story (GE Healthcare); Published by IGI-Global, August, 2011.
This book illustrates the power of ME methods for making efficient managerial decisions in different areas of healthcare. ME principles of quantitative decision-making presented in this book make it possible to predict performance and real resource requirements allowing decision-makers to be truly proactive rather than reactive. The distinct feature of this book is that it provides an international exposure to this challenging area. Researchers and healthcare practitioners both from U.S. and from Australia, Singapore, Japan, Italy, and Spain contributed to this book.
This book includes 20 chapters, and it is organized in five sections:
Efficient Managerial Decision-Making and Management of Operations.
Outpatient Clinic Management and Scheduling.
Electronic Health Records.
Patient Flow
Cost Management
To find out more about the book click here.
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Exciting news! Registration is NOW Open!
Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference
Feb. 18-21, 2012
The Mirage Hotel
Las Vegas, Nev.
The conference will feature best practices in quality,
productivity and efficiency for healthcare industry decision makers and providers seeking ways to lower costs and increase service.
Don't miss an opportunity to learn from the best minds in process, and therefore performance, improvement in the healthcare industry. Click here for conference information and registration!
Poster presentations now accepted
Students are invited to participate by presenting their work in poster format! Students, submit your abstract now for poster presentation.The deadline to submit is Nov. 30.
2012 Student Paper Competition
Winning submissions will receive a $1,000 cash award
and $500 per team for travel expenses to present their projects at the conference The submission deadline is Dec. 5.
Click here for more information and submission instructions.
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SHS Committee News: Communications Committee
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The SHS Communications Committee, chaired by Alina Hsu, facilitates the development and use of communication channels to broadcast Society events, activities, and services for members, as well as to increase awareness of SHS among the broader healthcare community. The committee is responsible for producing the monthly newsletter; continuously improving the SHS website based on member feedback; and increasing SHS's social media presence by coordinating Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and blogging activities.
Early in 2011 the committee focused on developing a blogging strategy and recruited volunteers to serve on the initial panel of bloggers. This led to the launch of a new blog site in August of 2011. The blog will cover the broad domain of overlap between industrial/systems engineering and healthcare. In addition to industrial engineers, we hope that our audience will include clinicians and healthcare executives. We already have a good cross-section of topics, and encourage you to take a look.
The committee continues to work on enhancing the functionality and ease of use of the SHS website. Facebook, LinkedIn and blog posts are more easily accessible from the SHS website. Monthly visits to the SHS website have increased tenfold from 2010. If you are a blogger or have an interest in blogging, please contact us, and we will get you involved. For more details, including committee members and recent minutes, click here.
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SHS Annual Scholarship
Nominations and complete applications due Dec. 1
The amount of the scholarship is $1,000. Recipients will also receive complimentary registration to the SHS Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference 2012 and a travel stipend.
Available to undergraduate students enrolled full-time in any school in the United States and its territories, Canada and Mexico, provided: (1) the school's industrial engineering program or equivalent is accredited by an agency or organization recognized by IIE; and (2) the student is pursuing a course of study in industrial engineering and operations research with a definite interest in the area of healthcare.
Students may not apply directly for the scholarship. They
must be nominated by IE department heads, IIE student chapter advisors, IE faculty or by SHS board members, SHS diplomates or SHS senior members. Applications must be received at IIE headquarters on or before Dec. 1.
More information and requirements
Nomination form
If you know of a student that is interested, please encourage them to request a nomination from an eligible nominator.
Also, we would like to continue to grow the scholarship program. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation.
Click here for details.
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Outstanding
SHS Member
of the Month
Kevin Martin
Performance Improvement
Leader
Carbon Health Systems
Over the last two months, Kevin has authored or coordinated development of two publications which are now available on the SHS website. The first is a presentation outlining Meaningful Use requirements and their implications for Healthcare IEs, and the second is a
group-authored presentation intended as an orientation tool for those new to Healthcare Industrial Engineering. In both of these, he volunteered his time and efforts in support for the Tools and Content committee for further the information base of the Society, to the benefits of its members.
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Thanks! SHS Newsletter Team
Tom Best
Eric Buchanan
Junell Scheeres
Bart Sellers
Interim Editor
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Now recruiting
SHS Newsletter volunteers!
The SHS newsletter team is looking for volunteers to increase the quality, breadth, and depth of the monthly SHS Newsletter. Volunteers can fill many roles including identifying newsworthy content, coordinating of announcements from the other SHS committees, soliciting submissions, and generating original content. To find out more about volunteer opportunities contact the SHS Newsletter editor, Bart Sellers.
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