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.
Take advantage of this excellent opportunity to serve your society in a significant way. If not you, then perhaps someone you know is qualified to take a leadership position on the SHS Board. SHS continues to grow and we are looking for motivated, enthusiastic volunteers to continue the progress. The SHS Call for Board Nominations is open now.
This 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.
Doug Underwood| East Alabama Medical Center – Opelika, AlabamaOverview/Introduction:Diverse health systems routinely face the difficult task of prioritizing potential improvement projects. Performance Improvement departments are often flooded with project proposals and working on too many at once can lead to minimal returns. In this article, Doug Underwood presents a tool for optimizing a department’s project queue. He describes in detail how East Alabama Medical Center developed a way to quickly but effectively identify departments in the greatest need of performance improvement. For the full article, click here
Did you know a Healthcare Management Engineering list serv is available through the SHS website? This moderated discussion group is for announcements for health care management engineers and others working in the following areas: Six Sigma, re-engineering, process improvement, lean, productivity, benchmarking, ISO 9000, performance improvement, work redesign, simulation, staffing, SPC and TQM/ CQI. Subscribe here today.
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By guest blogger Tom Best How’s your knowledge of modern physics these days? Mine leaves quite the void, but I sat down anyway to read an article on the subject: the cover story in the flagship publication of my alma mater (“Heart of the Matter” by Jill Sakai, from “On Wisconsin” of UW-Madison). While my intent was to refresh my knowledge of the world outside my routine, I couldn’t help drawing a comparison between what I was reading and the world of health systems engineering. Read more