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SHS Conference Key Note Speakers
Loews Royal Pacific Resort, Orlando Florida
March 1-3, 2017
If you join us for the 2017 SHS Conference, you will be privileged to hear from our wonderful keynote speakers. On Thursday, we will hear from Julie Moretz, Family Leader and Associate Vice Chancellor for Patient- and Family- Centered Care at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. Inspired by her young son's battle with heart disease - Julie Moretz has spent the better part of her career as a family leader passionate about improving healthcare. Then, on Friday, we will hear from Donald Wheeler from Statistical Process Controls, Inc. Donald J. Wheeler is a consulting statistician who knew and worked with W. Edwards Deming for more than 20 years. Click here to learn more about our great speakers.
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IISE - SHS Elections
The Society for Health Systems (SHS) is a subset of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).
Many members of SHS are also members of IISE. If you are a member of IISE, please vote in the upcoming elections.
Four SHS members are running for IISE board positions; please consider supporting your fellow SHS members by voting for them in the IISE elections.
Two SHS board members are running for IISE board positions:
Amanda Mewborn
, SHS's current past president, is running for Senior Vice President of Technical Operations
Rudy Santacroce
, SHS's current treasurer, is running for Technical Vice President.
Two SHS members are running for IISE board positions:
Jennifer Cross is running for Senior Vice President of Technical Operations.
Alex Ortiz is running for Technical Vice President.
Please be sure to cast your IISE election ballot and support your fellow SHS members.
The link to the ballot will be emailed to each IISE member
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SHS Board Meeting Minutes
Are you curious about what your SHS board is working on? Good news! The board meeting minutes are now available for viewing on the web site. Click on the link below to access minutes from August - November 2016. Board meeting minutes.
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Call for Nomination for SHS Newsletter Editor
All nominees must be current, regular members of SHS. Students are not eligible.
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 become SHS Newsletter editor.Participating in a leadership role for the society is a challenging, yet at the same time, very rewarding experience.
The position is a one-year commitment with fantastic opportunities to network and give back to the profession. Generally the time commitment is three to five hours per month - about half of the time is during traditional business hours -with the term beginning
Jan. 1, 2017 . Interested candidates or nominators should complete the
nomination form
by Dec. 15, 2016. Take a few minutes to consider submitting your name or that of a colleague to vclark@iise.org at IISE Headquarters. |
Member Recognition
Michele S. Stuart, PMP, President, Efficiency Engineers, was recognized by the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) with the Entrepreneur of the Year award.
This award recognizes a woman engineer who has demonstrated a conviction to dreams and a willingness to make them happen. Also, she is skilled in technical, business planning, administrative, and financial techniques, and excels in business leadership. Specifically, Stuart was awarded this for realizing the potential of applying industrial engineering services to the health care industry, achieving dramatic results, and exemplifying the pioneering spirit of entrepreneurship.
Congratulations to Michele. To see more information about this awards click here.
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HIMSS17 / The Meeting Place For All Things Health IT
With its world-class education, ever-expanding exhibition and exceptional networking opportunities, no other event brings the brightest minds in health and IT together like HIMSS17. We're proud to be an endorser of HIMSS17.
Join 40,000+ like-minded peers from around the world at HIMSS17 in Orlando, where you'll find:
- 300+ education programs
- A wide variety of topics, including population health, new payment models, cybersecurity, patient safety, interoperability and more
- 1,200+ exhibiting companies
- Hundreds of special programs
- Limitless networking opportunities
... all designed to equip you to navigate the ever-changing, challenging world of health IT.
Register here.
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SHS Graduate Student Paper Competition!
The Society for Health Systems (SHS) is pleased to announce the 2017 Graduate Student Paper Competition!
The winning submission will receive a cash award, complimentary conference registration and the opportunity to present your project at the Healthcare Systems Process Improvement Conference, held March 1 - 3, 2017, in Orlando, Florida.
The submission deadline is December 17, 2016. Paper submissions can include multiple student authors and should describe applied projects, research results, case studies, class projects or other work efforts in which industrial engineering skills were applied to a problem arising in healthcare systems engineering. The first author on the paper must be a student. Submitting student must be an SHS member. Judging criteria are based on originality, technical merit, relevance, organization and quality of the paper.
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Reducing Hospitalizations Among "Super-Utilizers" - The Care One Clinic
Presented by
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Robert Leverence MD, Deepa Borde MD, Jacqueline Pinkney LCSW, Joy Wright PharmD, and Robin Rocks RN
University of Florida Health officials detail how they cut hospitalizations and reduced uninsured hospital admissions-without hurting the system's bottom line. In an effort to better coordinate care for its super-utilizers, UF Health created an "ambulatory intensive care unit" called Care One Clinic in order to connect patients with primary care.
The clinic, housed at UF Health Shands Hospital, is staffed by:
- A social worker, who performs needs assessments for patients in their initial visits to identify barriers to care, such as low health literacy or a lack of transportation;
- A clinical pharmacist, who reconciles medications, provides patient education, and when necessary monitors opioid use;
- A hospitalist and an addiction specialist, who assist with condition management, address untreated needs, and provide referrals; and
- A nurse, who helps provide care.
Among the super-utilizers, hospitalizations dropped by 25 percent, hospital days fell by 23 percent, and ED visits decreased by 11 percent in the six months after enrollment, compared with the six months before.
Click
here to view recording and presentation.
Click
here to view all of SHS archived webinars.
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The Road Map To a Strong Population Health Program
Population health management can have wide benefits across the spectrum of care, and health systems looking to get into the game should incorporate several key operational goals, according to a new report. America's Essential Hospitals brought together a variety of stakeholders over the course of a year, and those different voices pointed to three steps for building population health programs. Read article here.
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Dr. Rawson Challenge
At the 2016 HSPI Conference, Dr. Rawson challenged SHS members to quantify the value they are providing to health systems across the country. Members of the SHS Young Professionals/Early Career committee are leading the call to action by gathering and analyzing information from SHS Members and will deliver the results of the data collection and analysis at the 2017 HSPI Conference. In an effort to encourage submissions to this important initiative, we would like to offer a recognition reward to the top submission by a SHS member. A Razoo account has been setup to fund this recognition award, if you are interested in donating click here.
We will be collecting data from October to December of 2016.
If you have any issues completing the form or general questions, please reach out to the following:
SHS Young Professionals/Early Career Vice-Chair Laura Silvoy at
Find the data collection tool for the Rawson - SHS Challenge
here.
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Healthcare's Workforce Must Adapt to Innovation
As new care innovations and payment models continue to change the healthcare industry, the workforce must adapt with it, according to a new commentary.
Read more.
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SHS | Upcoming Webinar
Accelerating Actionable Change to Improve Healthcare Outcomes
Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2 p.m. Eastern time
Presented by HSPI Conference Committee - Open to All
Presenter:
Julie Ginn Moretz, associate vice chancellor, Patient and Family Centered Care
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Every health system's patient experience and quality improvement journey may be different, but a common element in achieving better and safer outcomes is engaging patients and families.
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IISE Training Center
Advance your career with these upcoming healthcare training courses.
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SHS Newsletter Team
Lauren Todd, Editor
Bart Sellers
Eddie Perez-Ruberte
Kendall Sanderson
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Panjal Shah
Ajay Jayakumar
Colleen Park
Lavana Ragavan
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