Articles and Papers

The Influence of Empowerment - An A3 Performance Improvement^SM Success Story
ion Paper on Mandated Staffing Ratios, August 2005 
5S Improvement Inpatient Supply Rooms at Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana 
Implementing a Perpetual Inventory Management System in the OR at Shands Health Care
Hospital Operating System Unleashing Throughput Potential
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Standardizing Patient Care to Improve Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery
Small Sample Statistics: A Guide to Selecting your Method of Analysis 
Premium Pay: Are You Paying too Much for Your Labor?
Making the Business Case: Integration of Healthcare-Based Economic Evaluation Methodologies within Hospital QI Programs
Case Study: Using Lean Principles to Improve Turnaround Time and First-Case Starts in an Operating Room 
Improving Surgical Services through Enhanced Ancillary Support 
Is Computerized Physician Order Entry Safe for Patients? 
The Onus of Kaizen: Realizing the Full Intentions of Healthcare Reform 
Premier Operating Room Utilization and Perioperative Process Flow
5 Projects, 5 Hospitals: Using DMAIC for Rapid Quality Improvements 
Optiimizing Caregiver Workflow in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit 
Recruiting Change: Process and Productivity Improvement in Human Resources 
Sustaining VAP Bundle Compliance in the ICU: A Model of CQI 
Using Material Pull to Improve a Pharmacy Process
Improving Medical Equipment Availability at Barnes-Jewish Hospital
Centralized Database plus Socialized Medicine Equals Distributed Risk
The Importance of Communication for Patient Satisfaction
Adding Value to the Surgical PAT Process
Management Engineers
An Introduction to External Funding for Healthcare Improvement
What the Heck is President-Elect?
Beginning the Lean Improvement Journey in the Clinical Laboratory
Pioneers of Industrial Engineering in Healthcare: Part 1
Medication Administration and the Complexity of Nursing Workflow
Enhancing Hospital Health Information Management using Industrial Engineering Tools
Reducing Costs - Execution is Critical
Hospitals Need IE Data to Drive Staffing Decisions
Additional Thoughts Regarding Our Roundtable with the Experts
Queuing Analytic Theory and Discrete-Events Simulation for Healthcare: Right Application for the Right Problem
Work Measurement in Skilled Labor Environments
Linking Records from Separate EHRs Becomes a Reality
SHS Roundtable with the Experts: Summarizing Healthcare Improvement Challenges
The ABCs of Excelling in the Work Force
SQUIRE: National Standards for Reporting Healthcare Quality Improvement
SHS Focus: Online Health Resources
Staffing Budgets: It's not just FTEs
Decision Sciences paper on nurse staffing
Organizational Factors Influencing the Sustainability of Lean Healthcare
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Overview - IHI Improvement Methods
SHS-HIMSS Engineering & Process Improvement Award
Value Stream Mapping Got You Down? The Problem May Not Be You!
Results of the SHS Tools and Content Opportunities Survey
Simple Queuing Theory Tools You Can Use in Healthcare
In by 9, Out by 6 - Level Loading
Alma Mater Honors former SHS Board Member