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.
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