Health Systems by Amanda Mewborn

Industrial Engineer's monthly column about health systems (January 2016) 

Parallel worlds

The 2015 IIE Engineering Lean and Six Sigma Conference in Atlanta held a number of major highlights for me. Besides winning an award for my poster about reducing hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infections, seeing colleagues Jennifer Lingenfelter and Michael O'Toole talk about a program they developed to train industrial engineering principles in healthcare and watching a fun keynote session from one of my mentors, Piedmont Healthcare's Chief Medical Officer Dr. Leigh Hamby, I took a facility tour of a UPS hub.


You must be an IISE member to have full access to this content. Please log in at the top right corner of this Web page. 

IISE members visiting this site for the first time must register. As part of this process you will create a user name and password. This is a one-time process that requires your member number. 

If you are not a member, join IISE now and begin enjoying benefits immediately, including full access to ISE magazine.

SHARE