Happy new year, SHS members!
We are off to a great start at the Society for Health Systems with several
outstanding events and announcements to share. First off, the votes are in, and
we are happy to announce and welcome our new Board Members and Officers.
- President-Elect: Lauren Todd
- Director 2020-2023: Cody Hall
- Director 2020-2023:
Aaron Kanne
- Assistant to the
President: Darrin Judkins
- Secretary:
Neal Moriconi
- Treasurer:
Todd Banks
Please join me in congratulating these new members to the Board and thanking
them for their service to our Society.
The Healthcare
Systems Process Improvement Conference is just around the corner. The conference will be held in
historic Savannah, Georgia, Feb. 26-28. This
conference is our capstone event for the year that includes an outstanding
group of speakers, pre-conference workshops, and site tours, along with a
multitude of professional networking opportunities. Get a preview of one of our pre-conference workshop
speaker, Dr. Davana Pilczuk, in
the Savannah Morning News article, “Finish Line column: Health care can learn from industrial
engineers.” Additionally, if you or a
colleague want to learn more about why to attend, check out Mark Graban’s feature LeanBlog.org podcast on HSPIC, Podcast #355 — An
Engineer, an Architect, and a Nurse on Healthcare Improvement.
Below are a few upcoming
events and important dates:
- Open SHS Webinar at 12 p.m. Eastern time on Jan. 30 by Scott Sink on how to design,
develop, and lead a flow workshop in a hospital. This webinar is a case example
of how University Hospital East is "reducing to practice" learnings
shared by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement on how to improve flow in
hospitals. Register Here.
- IISE
Cup 2020 Sponsored by The
University of Tennessee Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. This international competition
provides an exciting opportunity for companies to highlight their successful
innovation solutions. Submissions accepted through January 31, 2020.
- Register
now for the Healthcare Systems
Process Improvement Conference in Savannah, Georgia. Also, don’t forget
to lock in the discounted hotel rate at the Hyatt
Regency Savannah.
- While you’re at the conference, join the
young professionals' panel discussion around “Advancing
Career Development Through Mentoring” on
Thursday, 2/27 from 4:15-5:20
PM. Additionally, an in-person
networking/meet up event, will take place at the YP Dutch Dinner. All mentors,
mentees or anyone interested are welcome to join.
- Interested in being a mentor or mentee? Sign up
on IISE Connect. The SHS mentoring program is focused on developing key
leadership skills of young professionals and building relationships between
experienced and young professionals in order to better develop a community of
healthcare improvement experts.
If you have questions, comments, or discussion
points for the Board, visit the Ask the Board thread on IISE Connect. I look
forward to hearing from you and working with the board to deliver value to our
members while advancing our professional practice.
Isaac B. Mitchell
SHS President '19-'20
IISE Connect
IISE Connect allows IISE and SHS members to easily interact and communicate online, empowering you to have better access to your member benefits.
Newsletters are now available in one spot to allow you easy access and frequent reference. Newsletters will be placed in the SHS connect community,
click here to view the community page.
Follow this
How-To Guide
and log in to the SHS Member Community page on IISE Connect to view the latest member discussions and contribute your thoughts.
Current discussions include:
- Value Stream Mapping Tools: Neal Moriconi has asked the community for insight on VSM tools outside of Visio.
- Feedback on SHS Impact in Your Career: The Young Professionals committee is collecting member thoughts on how SHS has impacted your career and why it is important to remain active in the society.
- Growing your Fixed Mindset to Achieve Success: Aaron Kanne recently read the book Mindset by Carol Dweck and has some thoughts on how the fixed vs. growth mindset concepts can be applied to the industrial engineering profession.
Committees
Are you interested in getting involved with SHS but are not sure how? We have multiple opportunities for involvement starting with our eight committees and our monthly newsletter. We are very excited with what we have in store for this year, but for SHS to be successful we need your help! Below are the committees and if you are interested in helping a committee or have a question please send a note to Elizabeth Gentry at
questions.shs@gmail.com.
Click here to learn more about SHS committees.
IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering – A forum to bridge
research and healthcare practices
IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering is an official journal of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. Our journal publishes research motivated by the challenging problems related to healthcare systems. It aims to foster the healthcare systems community by bringing research papers that have a strong methodological focus and direct applicability to healthcare systems to the audience. Currently, we publish papers in one of four categories: Healthcare Operations Management, Healthcare Informatics, Medical Decision Making and Socio-Technical Systems Analysis.
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