About this journal

IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering aims to foster the healthcare systems community by publishing high quality papers that have a strong methodological focus and direct applicability to healthcare systems.

Published quarterly, the journal supports research that explores:

· Healthcare Operations Management

· Medical Decision Making

· Socio-Technical Systems Analysis related to healthcare

· Quality Engineering

· Healthcare Informatics

· Healthcare Policy

We are looking forward to accepting submissions that document the development and use of industrial and systems engineering tools and techniques including:

· Healthcare operations research

· Healthcare statistics

· Healthcare information systems

· Healthcare work measurement

· Human factors/ergonomics applied to healthcare systems

Research that explores the integration of these tools and techniques with those from other engineering and medical disciplines are also featured.

We encourage the submission of clinical notes, or practice notes, to show the impact of contributions that will be published. We also encourage authors to collect an impact statement from their clinical partners to show the impact of research in the clinical practices.

Our peer review process is operated by independent, anonymous expert referees, Visit our Instructions for Authors page for information on preparing your manuscript.

Author benefits

IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering is an official journal of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers meaning your research will be available to all their members.

The prestigious and experienced members of our international Editorial Board will guide you from submission to publication

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EDITOR -IN-CHIEF

Prof. Hui Yang
IISE Fellow
Professor, Penn State University
University Park, PA, USA
Email: [email protected]

Biography: Dr. Hui Yang is a Professor of Industrial Engineering, Biomedical Engineering at Penn State, and is affiliated with Penn State Cancer Institute (PSCI), Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS), CIMP-3D. He was the president (2017-2018) of IISE Data Analytics and Information Systems Society, the chair (2015-2016) of INFORMS Quality, Statistics and Reliability (QSR) section, and the program chair of 2016 IISE Annual Conference.

His research focuses on sensor-based monitoring, modeling, and control of complex systems, as well as smart manufacturing and healthcare applications. His research program is supported by National Science Foundation (including the prestigious NSF CAREER award), National Institute of Health (NIH), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), MxD, Fulbright Foundation, industry companies, and private foundations. His research group received several best paper awards and best poster awards from IISE, IEEE, and INFORMS conferences. He is a professional member of IEEE, IEEE EMBS, INFORMS, IISE, ASEE, ASME, SME, AAAS and American Heart Association (AHA).



HEALTHCARE OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS

MEDICAL DECISION MAKING

Maria Mayorga, PhD – Goodnight Distinguished Chair and Professor, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

HEALTHCARE PUBLIC POLICY

Paul Griffin, PhD – Professor, Penn State University, State College, PA, USA

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

Adel Alaeddini, PhD - Associate Professor, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Dionne Aleman, PhD - Associate Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
Ozgur Araz, PhD - Professor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Hari Balasubramaninan, PhD - Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
Amarnath Banerjee, PhD - Professor, Texas A&M University, USA
Ellen Bass, PhD - Professor, Drexel University, USA
Tommaso Bellandi, PhD - Director, Tuscany Region Department of Health, Italy
Bjorn Berg, PhD - Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, USA
Jens O. Brunner, PhD - Professor, University of Augsburg, Germany
Zeng Bo - Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Michael W. Carter, PhD - Professor, University of Toronto, Canada
Changqing Cheng, PhD, Assistant Professor, State University of New York at Binghamton , USA
Tapas Das, PhD - Professor, University of South Florida, USA
Fatih Safa Erenay, PhD - Associate Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada
Chaitra Gopalappa, PhD - Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA
Mohan Gopalakrishnan, PhD - Associate Professor, Arizona State University, USA
Chun-Che Huang, PhD - Professor, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan
Shuai Huang, PhD - Associate Professor, University of Washington, USA
Julie S. Ivy, PhD - Professor, North Carolina State University, USA
Feng Ju, PhD - Associate Professor, Arizona State University, USA
Nan Kong, PhD - Professor, Purdue University, USA
Jing Li, PhD - Professor, Georgia Tech, USA
Lisa Maillart, PhD - Professor, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Diego A. Martínez, PhD - Assistant Professor, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Anthony McDonald, PhD - Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University, USA
Douglas J. Morrice, PhD - Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Lewis Ntaimo, PhD - Professor, Texas A&M University, USA
Kalyan Pasupathy, PhD - Associate Professor, Mayo Clinic, USA
Priyadarshini Pennathur, PhD - Associate Professor, University of Iowa, USA
Bing Si, PhD, Assistant Professor, State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, USA
Julie Swann, PhD - Professor, North Carolina State University, USA
Ata Taleizadeh, PhD - Associate Professor, University of Tehran, Iran
Murat Testik, PhD - Professor, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Geb Thomas, PhD - Professor, University of Iowa, USA
Jeff Weir, PhD - Professor, Air Force Institute of Technology, USA
Nicole Werner, PhD- Associate Professor - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Xiaolei Xie, PhD - Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China
Hsin-Hung Wu, PhD - Professor, National Changhua University, Taiwan
Shengfan Zhang, PhD - Associate Professor, University of Arkansas, USA
Zhi-Hai Zhang, PhD - Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China
Xiang Zhong, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Florida, USA
Jonas Jonasson, PhD, Assistant Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Biography:Oguzhan Alagoz is Proctor & Gamble Bascom Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Population Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research interests include stochastic optimization, medical decision making, completely and partially observable Markov decision processes, simulation, risk-prediction modeling and health technology assessment. He served as a member of ISPOR-SMDM Modeling Good Research Practices Task Force which developed recommendations for good modeling practices in state-transition modeling for the evaluation of health care decisions in 2012. He is also co-leading the University of Wisconsin Breast Cancer Simulation Model, a member of the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Intervention and Surveillance Modeling Network, that was used to inform national breast cancer screening guidelines in the US in 2016 and 2023. He is currently serving as an associate editor for Operations Research. He previously served as the editor-in-chief of IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering and on the editorial board of Medical Decision Making and IISE Transactions. He is an elected fellow of IISE. Furthermore, he has received various awards including a CAREER award from National Science Foundation (NSF), outstanding young industrial engineer in education award from IISE, Dantzig Dissertation Honorable Mention Award from INFORMS, 2nd place award from INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group best paper competition, best paper award from INFORMS Service Science Section, best podium presentation award from ISPOR, and best poster award from UW Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center. He has been the principal investigator and co-investigator on grants approximately $7 million funded by NSF and NIH.

Biography:John Fowler is the Motorola Professor of International Management in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He served as the department chair of supply chain management from 2011-2016. Prior to that he was the Avnet Professor of Industrial Engineering at ASU. His research interests include discrete event simulation, deterministic scheduling, and multi-criteria decision making applied to manufacturing and service systems. He has published more than 140 journal articles and more than 100 conference papers.

Professor Fowler was the founding editor-in-chief for IIE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering. He continues to be the department editor for Healthcare Operations Management at the journal. He is an editor of the Journal of Simulation and associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing. He is a fellow of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). He served as IISE Vice President for Continuing Education, as INFORMS Vice President for Chapters/Fora, and served on the Winter Simulation Conference board of directors from 2005-2017 and 2021-Present. He was the program chair for the 2002 and 2008 Industrial Engineering Research Conferences, the 2008 Winter Simulation Conference and co-program chair for the 2012 INFORMS National Meeting

Biography:Teresa Wu is a Fulton Professor of Industrial Engineering Program at School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence of Arizona State University. She is National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award winner (2003), IISE Fellow (class of 2020).

She is a professor of radiology (affiliate appointment) at College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic and the founding co-director of ASU-Mayo Center for Innovative Imaging (AMCII). Her research interests include health informatics, swarm intelligent algorithms for distributed decisions. Her research has been funded by >50 grants from National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health (NIDDK,NINDS, NIA, NICDH), American Heart Association, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Mayo Clinic Foundation. She has published more than 150 journal articles.

The Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) is the world's largest professional society dedicated solely to the support of the profession. IISE is an international, non-profit association that provides leadership for the application, education, training, research, and development of industrial and systems engineering.

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The institution publishes four journals: 

IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors

IISE Transactions on Healthcare Systems Engineering

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