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SHS is a professional association that focuses on the needs and resources of health systems professionals and leaders who are charged with improving health care processes. SHS offers the latest in process analytics, tools, techniques and methodologies for performance improvement.
Health Care SeminarsThis series of seminars will provide you with the basics of the industrial engineering toolbox as applied to health care and introduce you to the fundamental management skills required for demanding tasks in this industry.
blog Healing Health Care: Spider balloonsI have attended several major health care conferences and seminars in the past year, mostly having to do with “patient flow." Some were large, some small, some “famous,” and some, to me, are now “infamous.”
Update from the Landmark Healthcare Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) The Premier health care alliance Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) pay-for-performance project is the first national project of its kind, designed to determine if economic incentives to hospitals are effective at improving the quality of inpatient care.
ED Transformation at Mary Washington Hospital - Article Overview In his paper, “The Journey Toward a Lean ED,” Dr. Jody Crane describes how one hospital in Fredericksburg, VA, improved patient flow via the application of Lean Methodology.A Day in the Life at The Children’s Hospital of Denver The industrial engineers at The Children’s Hospital, Denver may (or may not) be your typical health systems engineers. Starting around 5:00am, while most people are still in bed, they efficiently seek to help both the environment and their personal well being…with a bike ride to work and a few laps at the pool adjacent to the hospital (while we’d like to think this scenario is an everyday occurrence, we’d be kidding ourselves).
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