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Group: Fentanyl to fuel opioid deaths 5 more years

The deadly synthetic fentanyl and a shortage of treatment facilities will fuel the opioid epidemic over the next five years — and fatalities will climb before finally tapering off, according to mathematical models developed by Northeastern researchers.

U.S. News & World Report

To improve hospitals, doctors look to Toyota

For one, between health and engineering, “we are different cultures, we have different languages, different norms, different languages, different incentives. Probably the greatest challenge in deployment is partnering,” said James Benneyan, director of the Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute at Northeastern University. “What is missing is this sensei,” he added. “What is missing is individuals who […]

The Commonwealth Fund

Quality Matters In Focus: Improving Patient Flow—In and Out of Hospitals and Beyond

Malden received help from the Healthcare Systems Engineering Extension Center, led by James Benneyan, Ph.D., an industrial engineer at Northeastern University who received a Health Care Innovation Award grant from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation to bring technical expertise in systems engineering and operations management to health care. Benneyan hopes “to demonstrate how engineers […]

Image of emergency response tent in Pennsylvania

Hospitals are bracing for a surge of COVID-19 cases. This model can help them get ready for staff and equipment shortages.

Engineering professor James Benneyan helped create a tool to calculate when hospitals might run out of essential resources, such as staff and ventilators, as COVID-19 cases peak.

Northeastern students tackle healthcare

At the biannual meeting of the National Science Foundation Center for Health Organizations Transformation, graduate students from professor James Benneyan’s Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute presented the results of interdisciplinary projects aimed at fixing the healthcare system.

Proven systems engineering methods can cure complex healthcare challenges

Professor James Benneyan’s team at the Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute is starting to save healthcare systems millions of dollars by solving some of their most complex challenges.

Family’s health scare helps student find calling

Industrial engineering major Kendall Sanderson studies how to use systems engineering to streamline the healthcare industry.

At the edge of a cliff, health care must evolve quickly

Dr. Donald M. Berwick, the former administrator of Medicare and Medicaid Services and a staunch reform advocate, spoke at Northeastern about the future of America’s health-care system.

Engineering new health-care solutions

Northeastern hosted a meeting of CIMIT, a consortium of Boston-area teaching hospitals, universities and research labs that works to bring technology solutions to health care.

Taking health care solutions to new heights

Dr. Vinod Sahney focuses on using the principles of systems engineering to improve treatment, patient safety and quality of care.

Bringing the ‘human element’ to engineering

Northeastern hosts conference that explores how engineering solutions can help repair the U.S. health-care system

Northeastern leads partnership to improve VA health care processes

New Veterans Engineering Research Center to develop and implement industrial engineering methods for health care systems

Northeastern University Receives Grant to Raise Environmental Awareness with Computer Simulation Game

National Science Foundation Grant to Aid Unique Interdisciplinary Effort Boston, Mass. – Northeastern University has received a $498,803 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to assess next generation learning through computer-facilitated networked play. The project focuses on a cooperative interdisciplinary computer game, Shortfall Online, developed by faculty and staff from the Department of Mechanical […]