Dr. Benneyan will be speaking on Healthcare Systems Engineering: Past, Present, Future.
Dr. Benneyan is a member of the INFORMS Speakers Program, which I have had the privilege of chairing for the past two years. The UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter has invited him to our campus. We will also be celebrating the chapter's receipt of the magna cum laude award at the 2012 INFORMS Conference in Phoenix recently.
Dr. Benneyan is a UMass Amherst alum.
His talk will take place at the Isenberg School of Management in Room 106 from 2-3PM followed by a reception to celebrate the award. Please join us if you can -- it should be a fabulous, informative presentation.
The abstract of Dr. Benneyan's presentation and his bio are below.
Abstract
Problems
with our healthcare system are well-known and staggering, including
poor access, inefficient processes, equity disparities, practice
variability, and patient safety issues, all at enormous costs.
Healthcare expenditures now exceed $3 trillion annually
(nearly 18% GDP), increasing at almost double inflation and with ~30%
attributable to poor processes, error, and waste. Estimates of
medical errors include 1.4 million affected patients, 98,000 deaths,
and $8.8 billion annually, while avoidable readmissions, variability,
and non-compliance cost over $200 billion/year. The enormity of this
crisis has prompted the National Academy of Engineering, Institute of
Medicine, and others to advocate greater application of systems
engineering and operations research over a decade ago, yet not much
has changed. Management science, by whatever name, in fact has a long
history in health care, recently enjoying another renaissance within
academia. This talk is divided roughly into thirds - discussing the
state of healthcare today, history of healthcare IEOR and examples of
current applications, and important future directions and changes if
our field is to have more profound societal impact.
Bio
Dr.
James Benneyan is director of the Healthcare Systems Engineering
Institute at Northeastern
University, including undergraduate through doctoral academic and
internship programs and three centers
funded by the National Science
Foundation, Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid, and Veterans
Health Administration. He is a senior fellow at the Institute
for Healthcare Improvement, advisor to CMS’s Innovation center,
past vice president of the Institute for Industrial Engineers, and
serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards. Benneyan has
received nine research, teaching, and service awards; is a fellow of
the Society for Health Systems, Institute of Industrial Engineers,
and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society; and has
served as principal investigator, director, or co-director in seven
research centers and laboratories totaling over $32 million in
funding. Prior to Northeastern, he was senior systems engineer at
Harvard Community Health Plan, an industrial engineer at IBM and
Digital Equipment Corporation, and consultant in a healthcare
engineering company.
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