Articles and Papers

• Supply Chain Tip Sheet
• Systemness Tip Sheet
  
• 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 
  • Executive Summary 
  • Full white paper 
• 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
  • Read the abstract
  • View full survey results 
  • 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