A Conference on Improving Patient Care by Rethinking Processes, Systems and Organizations
September 18-19, 2008, Medical Education and Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Healthcare providers are under increasing pressure to reduce waste and eliminate unnecessary costs while improving the quality and consistency of the care they provide. As a result, more attention is turning to the operational enablers of care, such as responsive patient and provider scheduling systems, efficient and timely patient flow management, and technology-enabled decision-support tools.
Increasingly, practitioners and academics from across the medicine-business-engineering spectrum and beyond are focusing their efforts on helping healthcare providers improve both the quality and efficiency of care. Innovations in systems and process analysis, OR/patient flow, automation and expert systems, scheduling policies, advanced analytical techniques, and other contemporary sciences are being applied to address the myriad challenges facing health care today.
The Innovations in Healthcare Delivery conference series brings together healthcare managers, physicians, and researchers from a variety of backgrounds and specialties to present and discuss new insights and creative solutions for the efficient delivery of high-quality care.
IHD2008 is jointly sponsored by Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, the University of Cincinnati, and the POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management.
For more information, contact:
Amy Borgert
3333 Burnet Ave.
MLC 7014
Cincinnati, OH 45229
513-636-0161
For additional information and updates, please see the conference website: http://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/ihd-conference
ORAHS 2008 will be held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from July 28 to August 1, 2008. ORAHS is the EURO working group on operations research applied to health services. This will be the first time in ORAHS history that the annual meeting venue is in North America. Appropriately, the theme is International Perspectives on Operations Research and Health Care. This conference will be a great opportunity to share ideas with fellow health care operation researchers from North America, Europe and the world.