IIE Blogs

We need to stop trying to adopt everything from somewhere else, stop being so dogmatic about our "favorite flavor," and develop set of solutions to healthcare's very special problems!

The merging of management engineering with quality improvement is a logical and natural blend. Quality comes from perfected processes - and a focus on quality generates the need for improved operations. 

Pierce Story takes a break from discussing healthcare in order to organize the process that can sometimes be the Christmas holiday.

The Society for Health Systems has agreed to form a Public Policy Education Committee, through which legislators and public officials at the local, state and federal levels might become educated on the resources and impacts we have to offer.

Traveling, as I often do, gives me the opportunity to learn from service stumbles in the travel industry and relate them to my own business. 

The passion to change the system surpasses the willingness to tackle its real problems. Though there are plenty of flaws in the current system, politics will prevent a better solution from being developed.

Every cost is being analyzed these days as more and more congressional leaders, taxpayers and providers seek to squeeze cost out of the health care system.

As a physician friend of mine puts it, the high costs in the system are not due to “the typical middle-income family of four, but rather the 300-pound diabetic smoker who won’t take her meds.”

Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the H1N1 virus to be a pandemic, after a significant rise in cases and deaths. ... How will local health care facilities respond?

Most of you who read this blog know that I am a proponent of “personal responsibility” as a means by which to help “save” the health care system. ... read more