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If you are interested in participating in the 7th annual Volunteer Service Project prior to the conference in Orlando (May 18th, 2019), please sign up below. Due to popularity from previous years, we actually have 2 nonprofits we will be working with ...

Hey students, how can you receive a $100 discount on your registration for the 2019 IISE Annual Conference and Expo ? It's easy ... just volunteer ten hours of your time (2 five-hour shifts) to work at the registration desk, serve as a room host, or ...

OR Division Members, Please remember that the deadline for board member and President-elect nominations is March 24th.   Please consider helping us serve the Operations Research community in a significant way. If not you, then remember you may nominate ...

I think this is great. Thanks, Isaac! Laura Silvoy, Lean Bronze Certified Senior Associate | Director of Continuous Improvement | Array Advisors d: 610-755-6423 View My LinkedIn Profile Visit ...

Hi Aaron: Pay them! Most physicians in a smaller private practice can not afford to spend significant time not generating revenue. You are facing one of the significant hurtles in creating value in a private practice environment. ...

We've had similar difficulties, even with our employed providers.  Admittedly, this is still an area we struggle with. A few approaches we've taken: 1) For one contracted group, our hospital leadership compensated the physician group for their time which ...

Thanks for your input, everyone. Here is some information from Larry Aft, who is in charge of continuing education at IISE: IISE is authorized by IACET to offer CEU's. These are not approved by any state, but by our accrediting organization. ...

SHS Board, Please respond with feedback, additions, and substations by 3/22/19 to the CoP and Committee standard report out. Report Leading Metric.  If required, discuss any special cause and possible countermeasures Feedback/Decision needed ...

Please replay with requests for added agenda items for April's BOD meeting.  Also, please join by webcam if possible. https://www.dropbox.com/s/76uf3yw56yyk827/2019_04%20SHS%20BOD%20Agenda.docx?dl=0 Dropbox ...

Dear Brion, thanks for organizing this topic and speaker. This is really valuable. While the concepts and tools are especially applicable to innovations that help  improve the lives of people, they can be applied in the workplace. After all, workplace ...

Are you interested in developing a plan  to test out your social entrepreneurship, nonprofit or mission-driven business ideas? Don't waste valuable time, resources or money pursuing your ideas, if you find that it doesn't work for the people you ...

Data Analytics and Information Systems - Spring Webinar Feature Extraction and Selection Using Topological Data Analysis Tuesday, March 19, 2 p.m. Eastern time |   Register now Presenter:  Ashis G. Banerjee, Ph.D., assistant ...

Data Analytics and Information Systems - Spring Webinar Feature Extraction and Selection Using Topological Data Analysis Tuesday, March 19, 2 p.m. Eastern time |   Register now Presenter:  Ashis G. Banerjee, Ph.D., assistant ...

Hello fellow healthcare improvers, Have any of you had success in getting non-hospital employed physicians involved in day-long or multi day lean improvement events? We are working in the Women's services department and we are planning three, one day ...

I am supportive of conference committee putting a proposal in place to help the board understand the work associated with it and also do an ROI. Basically a business proposal. I remember, Dean investigating this for HIMSS in the past and might be a ...

SHS Board Committee Liasons: Dean and I have put together guidelines for escalation decisions to the board.  Please share this with you Committee Chairs If a committee is not sure, discuss with their Board liaison.  The Board liaison should be the ...

Another thought whereas it might be difficult for IISE to offer domain-specific continuing education, it might be possible to do so through collaboration with an organization that is able to do so. The concerns I raised earlier about the "purity" of ...

@Laura Silvoy ,  will you confirm with Bill Gibbs that we still offer general-purpose CEUs?  Each year in the past I have filled out the form to claim CEUs that Dean mentioned.  There are so many specific accrediting bodies for specific fields/certifications ...

Thanks for posting this Laura. Here are a couple of thoughts. I thought people that attend the conference can claim CEUs. In years past, there was a form that I filled out to claim CEUs. Based on (1) I wonder if what the real problem ...

Hi Everyone, During the conference committee call yesterday, we discussed the possibility of offering CEUs in 2020. One concern from the conference committee is the amount of work it takes to go through the CEU process and that the process varies by ...

Dear IISE Community, My hospital has had success in the past at sponsoring international employees who are working as management engineers (Optimization, Simulation, modelling, statistics, etc.). However I am curious to see if anyone has sponsored Improvement ...

SHS Board Liaisons, Please see the list of people that signed up to volunteer for SHS Committees at the HSPI Conference.  As board liaison, please work with your Committee Chair to have them contact the volunteers and get them looped into the committee ...

Following up on Mary Ellen's comments. 1. If an organization blocks Dropbox, they likely block other cloud storage like Google drive. 2. Dropbox accounts, like other cloud storage, can be partitioned in a manner so that a sub-community, in ...

Strengths: Increased visibility to committee work Better continuity year to year Standardization of approach for committee document management Weaknesses: Some  companies (like Philips) block access to dropbox , thus requiring a separate device to access ...

Thanks Laura! Strengths: One stop shop for all committee material Board can maintain document control as chairs rotate through Gives board real time access to leading metrics for each committee Weaknesses: Change to committee routine ...

There are of course, lots. I suspect a large percentage is local. The types include: Big 4 CPA firms General consulting firms, healthcare and other industries IT vendors, all EMR and others do consulting too Individual and small firms Specialized; strategic ...

As I mentioned in our meeting this week, there are several committees who have individual google drive accounts that get passed/shared with the new team each year. This is causing confusion among team members and is likely contributing to lost collateral ...

SHS Board,   I apologize for not creating an action item to effectivly communicate the board liaison changes. I would like the past board liaison to introduce the new liaison to the committees. Changes are below along with a dropbox link to the new framework.  ...

Hey everyone, I am writing as our company has started offering new consulting services and we are wanting to do some market research to understand what else is out there.  Does anyone know of any published list of consulting / performance services providers ...

SHS Board, In March's board call we identified that we need to Community of Practice and Committee Report standard work.  Please see my first draft below.  Respond with feedback, additions, and substations by 3/22/19. Report Leading Metric.  If ...