Speakers
John Hansmann, MSIE, FHIMSS, DSHS
Senior Vice President, Strategic Consulting Operations, Health Catalyst
John Hansmann, MSIE, FHIMSS, DSHS is a Senior Vice President Strategic Consulting Operations. He has over 30 years of healthcare experience in operations consulting, productivity management, strategic and IT analyses. At Health Catalyst, he is responsible for the development and implementation of operational consulting applications and services focusing on labor management, supply chain and patient flow/throughput. Prior to joining Health Catalyst, Mr. Hansmann was responsible for the labor management program at Tenet Healthcare, a 77 hospital for-profit healthcare system. Before Tenet, Mr. Hansmann was responsible for the operations improvement and labor management program’s for Intermountain Healthcare’s Urban South Region in support of the productivity, budgeting and costing initiatives. He has experience with hospital and physician practice acquisitions, and physician practice operations analysis. He is a past Board member for HIMSS and past President for SHS. Mr. Hansmann currently is a member of the Advisory Board for the school of Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering at North Dakota State University, He received his BSIE and MSIE from NDSU.
Speaker Sessions
22. Capacity Planning and Leadership Response: A COVID-19 Silver Lining
(Analytics, Innovative Data and Analytics Transformation, Machine Learning/AI — Course Level: Intermediate)
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated how quickly the healthcare industry can move when it needs to and has aligned leadership. One area where leaders and organizations have made rapid progress is capacity planning—including beds, mechanical ventilators, personal protective equipment, and staffing—even across traditional organizational boundaries. During this session, you will discover:
- How to identify different types of decision windows.
- Review leadership tools for forecasting and alerting in the context of what we’ve learned so far.
- Evaluate tool options for short term outlier detection.
- Applications of what we may encounter this Fall, Winter, and beyond.