In the News
October 11, 2022
A key step on the road to health equity: improving patient flow
December 12, 2021
COVID-19 surgery delays can be done without overburdening workers, say experts
By Laura Osman. The Canadian Press
July 13, 2020
How surgical smoothing could help ease the medical backlog created by COVID-19
Surgical smoothing eliminates conflicts and adds granularity to medical-decision making.
Colin Butler – CBC News
July 9, 2020
Who Should We Treat: Elective Surgical Admissions or Patients With COVID-19?
Peter S. Antkowiak, MD; Michael N. Cocchi, MD; David T. Chiu, MD, MPH; and Leon D. Sanchez, MD, MPH
July 6, 2020
Here’s what pooled testing is and how it can be used for the coronavirus
Jason Hanna, CNN
June 16, 2020
Opinion: This math-trained Harvard professor is helping hospitals cope with a potential second wave of Covid-19
Mark Taylor, MarketWatch
June 11, 2020
The coronavirus is devastating U.S. hospitals, which will lose $200 billion in revenue by the end of June
Peter S. Antkowiak, MD; Michael N. Cocchi, MD; David T. Chiu, MD, MPH; and Leon D. Sanchez, MD, MPH
November 30, 2019
Emergency Rooms Shouldn’t Be Parking Lots For Patients
Smoothing out surgical scheduling to improve efficiency is much less expensive than building a new hospital wing, and has been shown to yield major improvements.
August 22, 2019
To Solve Hospital Overcrowding, Think Like a Mathematician
An operations management specialist is applying lessons from statistics to help free up hospital beds. It’s working.
October 25, 2018
The way out of the nurse staffing impasse
Unresolved nurse burnout at hospitals globally leads to legislative initiatives such as Massachusetts’ ballot Question 1. In the face of financial constraints and workforce shortages, the only solution is to smooth variability in healthcare operations.
October 24, 2018
Bloomberg Baystate Business News – Question #1 Nurse Staffing Ballot
Listen to Dr. Litvak talk about IHO’s solutions for nurse staffing challenge. Talk starts at minute 30
November 21, 2017
US experts offer help as NHS Grampian tries to tackle op waiting times
Evening Express
June 12, 2017
US Health Experts Bid to Ease NHS Grampian Waiting Times
IHO is helping NHS Scotland make sustainable improvements on national access standards and staff and patient satisfaction.
Missourians brace for loss of health insurance as Congress moves to dismantle Obamacare
Samantha Liss, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 13, 2016
To Reduce Emergency Department Boarding and Hospital Crowding, Look Beyond the ED
ACEP Now
Special Report: Meet the Man Who Solved the Hospital Overcrowding Problem
Gina Shaw, Emergency Medicine News
Meet the man who says he can reduce the ER overcrowding problem
Hospital executives who have hired Eugene Litvak, president and CEO of the Boston-based Institute for Healthcare Optimization, call him a genius and a pioneer of hospital operations management improvement.
By Mark Taylor, Chicago Tribune
How a seven-day week approach can transform hospitals
Resolving the emergency department crisis – an international perspective.
Peter Viccellio, MD & Eugene Litvak, PhD, The Irish Times
St. Thomas fills health care need in community
Mary Rickard, The New Orleans Advocate
December 10, 2014
Holiday Surgery Dangers: What Patients Should Know
Charlotte Libov, Newsmax Health
Connections: Healthy Friday – Hospital Readmissions
Michelle Faust, WXXI.org
Optimize patient flow: The key to reducing readmissions
Ilene MacDonald, FierceHealthcare
Population Health Requires Healthcare Optimization
Population Health News
Smoothing out peaks, valleys in admission would save money
Modern Healthcare
Transatlantic Partnership
IHO has begun working with NHS Forth Valley to effectively manage variability in patient flow to reduce waiting time and improve access and care for patients.
Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Sets New National Standard in Patient Movement, Saving Millions of Dollars, Creating More Efficient Patient Care
IHO Variability Methodology® helped Newark Beth Israel Medical Center save $18 million in just three months by improving patient flow, quality and efficiency.
US experts trial airline systems in hospital revolution
Daniel Sanderson, Herald Scotland
Re-engineering surgical patient flow saves lives
Canadian Healthcare Technology
Is there another way to solve the nursing shortage?
Zack Budryk, FierceHealthcare
Don’t Get Your Operation on a Thursday
Nurses that are overwhelmed with excessive patient loads will not be able to provide adequate patient care
Doubling Unit Capacity
Ellie Rizzo, Becker’s Hospital Review
NJ hospitals’ efficency changes reduce wait times, stays
Katie Sullivan, FierceHealthcare
Efficiency Steps Help Hospitals Cut Costs While Improving Healthcare
Andrew Kitchenman, NJSpotlight
Quality Matters: Q&A: Improving Care by Improving Patient Flow
Sarah Klein, The Commonwealth Fund
Improving Patient Flow—In and Out of Hospitals and Beyond
The Commonwealth Fund
Efficiency Steps Help Hospitals Cut Costs While Improving Healthcare
Andrew Kitchenman, NJSpotlight
Ask Berwick
Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, former Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and former President & CEO of IHI, speaks about stewardship of resources, improvement, innovation and Eugene Litvak’s work.
CentralLogic Patient Flow Summit
Dr. Eugene Litvak presented at the 2013 Patient Flow Summit as a key note speaker
Re-Engineering the Operating Room Using Variability Methodology to Improve Health Care Value
Recent study in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons demonstrated significant improvement in operational and financial performance by applying IHO Variability Methodology® to reduce cost, improve quality of care, and boost staff satisfaction.
Scheduled Surgery Admissions and Occupancy at a Children’s Hospital: Variation We Can Control to Improve Efficiency and Value in Health Care Delivery.
Here is another evidence why IHO approaches is effective in managing patient flow.
Patient Loads Often At Unsafe Levels, Hospitalist Survey Finds
Kaiser Health News, Alvin Tran
Stuck in the Emergency Room
Boston.com
Innovations in Care Delivery to Slow Growth of US Health Spending
Nationwide application of IHO’s Variability Methodology® could reduce US health care per capita spending by 4%-5%.
Empty beds may signal too many hospitals
Jessica Hall, Press Herald
IOM: Healthcare delivery wastes $750B a year
Ron Shinkman, Fierce Health Finance
U.S. squanders a staggering $750 billion each year on health care
Susan Perry, MinnPost
Institute of Medicine released its new groundbreaking report
Maureen McKinney, ModernHealthcare
New IOM Report Addresses Growing Complexity Of Health Care
Chris Fleming, HealthAffairs Blog
Ankita Rao, Kaiser Health News
CEO Checklist for High Value Health-care Recommends Use of Variability Methodology®
National Academy of Sciences
N.J. Hospitals Partner for Better Patient Care
Kimberly Brook, NJ Business
Go With the Flow
Dean Lin, Suits and Scrubs
A Successful and Sustainable Health System – How to Get There from Here
IOM President Recommends Smoothing of Patient Flow
Experts: Avoid status quo in hospital operations to improve care, finances
Melinda Caliendo, NJBIZ
Engineering a cure for hospital inefficiencies
Mark Taylor, Philadephia Inquirer
HHS gives millions to bring partnership agenda to Pa., N.J.
John George, Philadelphia Business Journal
NJHA Affiliate Wins $7 Million Federal Contract to Launch Statewide Health Improvement Effort
NJHA will work with the Institute for Healthcare Optimization to provide “flow management” methodologies designed to reduce healthcare professionals’ stress and shortages, improve hospital operational efficiency, improve healthcare quality and reduce costs.
Rapid Response Teams No Substitute for Wrong Bed Assignment
Cheryl Clark, HealthLeaders Media
Rapid Response Teams: Best Option for Emergency Care?
ABC News
Fixing patient flow can obviate the need for rapid response teams on many occasions
Healthcare and traffic management
Executive Healthcare Magazine
Foreign lessons in hospital efficiency
Eugene Litvak on BBC / PRI
No waiting: A simple prescription that could dramatically improve hospitals – and American health care
Scott Allen, Globe Staff, The Boston Globe
Sick of Waiting
Sick of Waiting
Proto, Linda Keslar, Summer 2008
When the ER Flatlines
Wall Street Journal, Kristen Gerencher
Variability Theory in Health Care: Cutting Costs, Increasing Quality
Host Michael Greenberg, MD
Guest Eugene Litvak, PhD
Variability Theory: Is it a Winning Formula for American Healthcare?
Host Michael Greenberg, MD
Guest Eugene Litvak, PhD
A new Rx for crowded hospitals: Math
ACP Hospitalist, Eugene Litvak answers questions from Stacey Butterfield about queuing theory
Code Blue for the ER: How to Stop the Bleeding
Arian Campo-Flores, Newsweek/MSNBC
Special Surgery
Matthew Herper, Forbes
St. John’s Cuts Errors, Increases Efficiency
Kathleen O’Dell, News-Leader
Albany Memorial Operates on its Surgery Scheduling
Barbara Pinckney, The Business Review (Albany)
Queue Fever, Parts 1 and 2: A little number crunching can show hospitals how many beds and staff members they really need
David Ollier Weber, Hospitals & Health Networks
St. John’s Cuts Errors, Increases Efficiency
Kathleen O’Dell, News-Leader
Albany Memorial Operates on its Surgery Scheduling
Barbara Pinckney, The Business Review (Albany)
Queue Fever, Parts 1 and 2: A little number crunching can show hospitals how many beds and staff members they really need
David Ollier Weber, Hospitals & Health Networks
Unsnarling Traffic Jams in the O.R. Surgeons Lose Coveted Perk In Scheduling Procedures; Faster Service for Emergencies
Laura Landro, The Wall Street Journal
Restructuring the ER
Susan Dentzer, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
Getting with the flow helps hospital deliver service
Scott Allen, Globe Staff, The Boston Globe, front page
Emergency Room Recovery
Busy Boston Medical Center eases delays by keeping ‘customers’ moving
By Scott Allen, Globe Staff
OUR VIEW: Cost-cutting in the ER
Patriot Ledger, Editorial
May 17, 2002
Hospitals eye BU plan to boost care, add revenue
Allison Connolly, Boston Business Journal
BU Program Seeks Balance of Cost vs Care at Hospitals
Allison Connolly, Boston Business Journal