2015 Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety Symposium

2015 Healthcare Engineering & Patient Safety Symposium


Hassan Abbas

Flow Visualization at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital


Maya Bam

Surgery Scheduling with Recovery Resources


Christine Barnett

Optimizing Early Detection Decisions for Prostate Cancer: Can New Biomarkers Help Save Lives?


Andrea Bouwhuis

Documentation using Discrete Fields or Free-Text in Mi-Chart: Implications for Research


Patrick Brady

Glove Box – Secure Cloud Computing For Research At UM


Jeremy Castaing

A Stochastic Programming Approach to Reduce Patient Wait Times and Overtime in an Outpatient Infusion Center


Moses Chan

Improving Patient Access to Weight Management Program for Morbidly Obese Patients


Ajaay Chandrasekaran

Phlebotomy Simulation


Mark Grum

Simulating a Medical Observation Unit for a Pediatric Emergency Department


Young-Chae Hong

Exact Methods for Finding Pareto-Dominant Resident Shift Schedules for a Pediatric Emergency Department


Molly Laux

Referral Patterns from Pediatric Care Clinics to the Emergency Department


Brian Lemay

Scheduling Medical Residents With Conflicting Requests For Time-Off


Xiang Liu

Missed Opportunities in Preventing Hospital Readmissions: Redesigning Post-Discharge Checkup Policies


Wesley J. Marrero

Policy Approximation for Optimal Treatment Planning


Kayse Maass

Using Optimization Techniques to Improve the Shift Scheduling of Operating Room Staff


Vanessa Morales

Predicting Deliveries in a Labor and Delivery Unit


Pamela Martinez Villarreal

Improving Patient Flow in an Outpatient Chemotherapy Infusion Center


Paige Mollison

Shift Scheduling for C.S. Mott Pediatric Emergency Department


Rama Mwenesi

Innovations in Surgical Instrument Reprocessing Methods for Improved Patient Safety and Financial Stewardship at UMHS


Kathleen Omollo

Learning Health Systems


Scott Owens

Creating a Dedicated Quality and Value-creation System in an Academic Department of Pathology


Jenny Pardo

Optimization of OR Block Schedule


Billy Pozehl

Block Scheduling for Medical Residents


Donald Richardson

Determining an Optimal Schedule for Pre-mixing Chemotherapy Drugs


Matt Rouhana

Improving Patient Flow in an Outpatient Chemotherapy Infusion Center


Nina Scheinberg

Appointment Scheduling Game


Jacob Seagull

Human infrastructure for Patient Safety: PASQUAL Scholars Program


Karmel Shehadeh

Rule-based Prediction Analysis for 30-Days Neurological Recovery Status Post Stent-Assisted Coiling Treatment of Brain Aneurysms


Luke Stumpos

Attending Physician Scheduling at the Mott Emergency Department


Tina Thomas

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Case Requirements for General Surgeons in Pediatric Surgery: Evaluation of Current Operative Volume on Resident Completion of Index Cases


Angela Wan

IHPI Open School


Victor Wu

Optimizing Global Liver Function in Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy


Gabriel Zayas-Caban

An Innovative Framework to Improve Efficiency of Interhospital Transfer of Children in Respiratory Failure

Improving the Efficiency of Newborn Screening from Collection to Test Results


Bill Zhang

Data Quality and Strategy for Healthcare Providers and Payers under Pay-for-Performance