HSyE Institute News
Oct 16, 2018
HSyE Awarded $1.8M in AHRQ Funding to Combat Patient Misdiagnoses
James Benneyan, MIE Professor & Director of the Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute, was awarded a $1.8M R18 award from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) in collaboration with Brigham and Women’s Hospital (lead) for a Patient Safety Learning Lab (PSLL) to develop real-time predictive/detection models of patient misdiagnoses.
Oct 16, 2018
HSyE Receives Funding for Continued Mitigation on U.S. Opioid Epidemic
James Benneyan, MIE Professor & Director of the Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute, received a $450K NIH/NIDA award for “Model-Informed Understanding and Mitigation of the U.S. Opioid and Heroin Epidemic.”
Oct 27, 2017
Using System Engineering Models to Combat Opioid Use
MIE Professor James Benneyan is creating mathematical models to optimize where to have short- and long-term treatment facilities to combat the growing opiod crisis.
Aug 02, 2016
HSyE to Collaborate on "Pursuing Excellence in Clinical Learning Environments" Award
The Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute (HSyE) will collaborate with Maine Medical Center on one of 8 “Pursuing Excellence in Clinical Learning Environments” awards from ACGME.
Feb 05, 2016
HSyE to Develop Better Methods to Detect Hospital Infection Outbreaks
HSyE and Duke Medical Center are partnering on a $2.5 million grant from the Agency of Healthcare Quality and Research to develop and test new statistical surveillance methods for detecting infection outbreaks in hospitals across the southeast United States.
Jan 05, 2016
HSyE receives 5th center with Harvard School of Public Health and Boston health systems to create $4m AHRQ Patient Safety Learning Laboratory
Northeastern University's Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute (HSyE) in partnership with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health has received its 5th federally-awarded research center in the past 5 years.
Nov 30, 2015
HSyE featured in the November Cover Story of PRISM magazine
MIE Professor James Benneyan and the Healthcare Systems Engineering (HSyE ) Institute were featured on the cover of ASEE's PRISM journal for "Industrial Rx for Healthcare".
Nov 19, 2015
MS Student Wins INFORMS Operations Research Paper Competition
MS student Kyle Cunningham won the 2015 INFORMS Undergraduate Operations Research Paper competition for "Alleviating competitive imbalances in NFL schedules: an integer-programming approach".