INCOSE-LA Speaker Meeting
Comparison of the new LHSE Process with former Quality Initiatives: Lean, Six Sigma, TQM, ToC, PDSA
with Bo Oppenheim

Speaker: Bohdan (Bo) Oppenheim
When:  Tuesday, November 8th, 2022, 5:30 to 7:30 PM Pacific Standard Time
Cost:  Free Online Event
Virtual Venue: Zoom meeting instructions will be emailed prior to the event and are included in your confirmation email message.  Slides will be available on the LA Chapter web site https://www.incose.org/los-angeles. We plan to record the event.
Questions:  Mark McKelvin, programs@incose-la.org

Agenda: 
5:30 pm   Networking and Introductions
6:00 pm   Chapter President's Overview and Updates
6:30 pm   Speaker Presentation
7:30 pm   Close

Abstract:   A new process called Lean Healthcare Systems Engineering (LHSE) recently invented for improving healthcare workflows and designing new care is reviewed and compared to previous quality initiatives: PDSA, TQM, Six Sigma, Lean, Theory of Constraints, and several others. LHSE is applicable to workflow improvement or new care design projects in clinical environments, including hospitals, operating suites, emergency departments, clinics, imaging and clinical laboratories, pharmacies, population health, and telemedicine. LHSE integrates the strengths of Lean Six Sigma and Systems Engineering (SE). Lean’s overarching philosophy of “do what is necessary to deliver the value and reject everything else as waste” governed the tailoring of the classical SE process to healthcare, eliminating the many bureaucratic and wasteful activities, and leaving only the steps that truly are needed in healthcare improvement projects. Utilizing tools from SE, LHSE presents several powerful improvements over previous approaches, in particular system optimization reducing the trial-and-error effort and cost; and increasing the predictability of outcomes. LHSE provides consistent logical rigor to projects, reducing iterations and failure, and is particularly effective in elimination the notorious fragmentation in healthcare systems.  Although LHSE has been created for healthcare, it is a general process applicable to non-healthcare projects. 

Presenter:  Bohdan "Bo" W. Oppenheim is a Professor Emeritus and Director (Ret.) of Healthcare Systems Engineering graduate Program at LMU. The unique Program was created in partnership with Kaiser Permanente and is regarded as a premiere HSE-type program in the nation.  Oppenheim is the author of seven books, authored and co-authored chapters in six other books and published 30 journal papers.   He was honored with three Shingo Awards, INCOSE (International Council on Systems Engineering) Product of the Year Award, INCOSE Fellowship, and over $2 million in externally funded grants.  He advised over 100 master’s projects at Kaiser Permanente, UCLA Health, USC Keck/County, Providence St Joseph, Cedar Sinai, AltaMed, GVA, Boston Children’s Hospital and smaller institutions.   Born in Warsaw, Poland, he has degrees from Warsaw Technical University, Stevens IT, MIT, and U. Southampton in UK in Aerospace,  Naval and System Engineering.