P resident-elect:

Ashley Benedict, Ph.D., systems redesign coordinator at VA Sunshine Healthcare Network, is a current board member. Ashley is a 13-year SHS member and will continue to share with us her 12 years of professional experience in both provider and academic settings, most recently with the Veterans Administration. As you saw in the ballot, Ashley is a past day chair of the SHS Annual Conference and has extensive connections with other Engineering-related organizations. Her most recent board role has been as liaison to the Student and Academic Committee.

Director:

Evelyn Brown, Ph.D. professor at East Carolina University, has been an SHS member for six years and has been active in many SHS committees in that time. Most recently, Evelyn has co-chaired the Student Case Study Competitions at the past three SHS Annual Conferences. She brings more than 20 years of professional experience, most notably an academic background which helps fill a much needed gap in the board's professional diversity.

Director:

 Lauren Todd is a senior management engineer at Intermountain Healthcare. Lauren is known most visibly as our SHS Newsletter Editor, but has been a volunteer with SHS since her undergraduate days at the University of Florida. Her first involvement in SHS was a very successful one - she won the SHS Student Paper Competition in 2006! Lauren also brings significant non-provider experience to the Board, again adding to its professional diversity.

Also joining the board:

Advance Professionally at HSPI C 2016

• Pre-conference workshops, offering an in-depth look into various IE healthcare-related topics.
• Facility tours, providing attendees a behind-the-scenes look at continuous improvement in action.
• Networking receptions to help attendees connect with other colleagues in an informal environment.
• Competitions to help students demonstrate their industrial and systems engineering skills to win scholarships and cash prizes.

Why heathcare? To make a difference
Amanda Mewborn, current SHS president, describes how she answers the common question industrial engineers receive about why work in healthcare when there are so many other opportunities. She describes the difficulties and rewards of such a job. This article was published in the November issue of Industrial Engineer magazine.

Using Big Data to Make Wiser Medical Decisions
As the chief information officer of a large academic medical center, John Halamka, M.D., oversees four petabytes of data. Is that "big data?" He has little difficulty storing, securing, and accessing it, so he's not sure it qualifies as big. To him, the bigness of data is not its absolute size, but the task of transforming it into wisdom . At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), they use big data to create real-world applications that lead to wise clinical decisions for patients. That's something any forward-thinking provider must aim for in today's data-driven health care environment.

Check out the full list of IIE Webinars
These free* one-hour presentations are a benefit of your IIE membership.  They are presented by knowledgeable professionals and experienced volunteers provide deeper insight into topics and issues involving industrial engineers and industrial engineering-related disciplines.  

Find out more!

  * Webinars presented by the Society for Health Systems and the Society for Engineering and Management Systems require membership in those societies to attend.

Happy New Year from the SHS Newsletter Team
The SHS newsletter team wants to thank you for your continued investment and reading of our newsletter.  We hope everyone had a great holiday season and a  Happy New Year.

 

 

SHS Newsletter Team Team

Lauren Todd, Editor
Bart Sellers
Eddie Perez-Ruberte
Kendall Sanderson
Panjal Shah
Ajay Jayakumar
Colleen Park
Lavana Ragavan

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