[CCoE Notice] Industrial Engineering Seminar

[Tekin, Eylem]

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING SEMINAR

Date: November 22, 2013
Time: 10am-11am
Place: 102 D

The Role of Industrial Engineers in Micro- and Macro-level Challenges
in Health Care Delivery

Andy Banerjee, Ph.D.
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Texas A&M University

Abstract

Health care delivery systems have been studied from different perspectives by industrial and systems engineers. Most of the research studies focus on modeling, solving and analyzing problems at the component level of the health care delivery systems. This talk is divided into two parts. As an example of a component level problem of health care delivery system, three different quantitative approaches to the outpatient appointment scheduling problem are discussed. There are much bigger challenges at the health care delivery system level. The 2005 NAE/IOM Report titled "Building a Better Delivery System - A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership" highlights some of the major challenges in the U.S. health care system. It provides a framework and action plan for a systems approach to health care delivery based on a partnership between engineers and health care professionals. Since then, there has been a renewed interest at the federal and state levels in the form of several large initiatives to improve health care delivery. The second half of this talk will focus on a few of these initiatives and the underlying problems where industrial engineering, systems approach and information technology are being used. The audience will see a rapidly emerging application area of industrial engineering, and some of the impact industrial engineers can make in health care delivery today and in the future. There will be some discussion on the rural health care landscape in Texas and their unique challenges.

Biography

Dr. Andy Banerjee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Texas A&M University. His research expertise is in modeling, simulation and visualization, and their applications in health care, manufacturing, and information systems. He is currently working on several health care delivery system problems serving as a Co-PI in the federally funded CentrEast Regional Extension Center, a joint endeavor between the Rural and Community Health Institute at the Texas A&M Health Science Center, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Mays Business School. He was appointed to the Texas Health Services Authority, where he provided assistance in the statewide collaborative planning process to create the infrastructure for health information exchanges in the state.

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