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New Club Officers

The 2007-08 officers of the MIS Club are:

President Cami Bergson

Co-Vice John Getzke

Co-Vice Jon Benning

Treasurer/Secretary Carah Pruitt

The 2007-08 officers of the Finance/Investment Club are:

President Jesse Andrist

Vice President Matt Steffen

Co-VP and Secretary Ryan Chapman

Co-VP and Secretary Brent Birkemeier

VP of Fundraising Garret McConnach

• MIS Club/Majors Trip to IBM Rochester

Professor Nik R. Hassan took the students enrolled in his two upper level MIS classes, one on software design (FMIS 3222 Systems Analysis and Design) and the other an introduction to enterprise-type systems (FMIS 3202 Enterprise Systems Architectures), on a field trip to IBM Rochester this April. The idea was to introduce the students to IBM as a future employer after their MIS degree and what working for IBM is like, to excite the students about the potential that enterprise-wide architectures such as Rational, Websphere and I-Series mid-range computers offer organizations, and to show the students examples of real-life applications of these technologies so students can relate them to what they learn in class. The trip was heavily subscribed and well received by both IBM and the students.

•  The Investment Club Trip to New York City

The Investment Club took its annual trip to New York City on April 12-15, 2007. Activities included touring RBC Capital Markets, meeting with Proprietary Arbitrage Traders, and touring the trading floor of the American Stock Exchange. Other highlights included touring around NYC and attending a Mets Game at Shea Stadium.

Faculty

• Dr. Junhua Wang from Texas Tech University has joined our department as Assistant Professor of Business Communications. She will start teaching our FMIS 3141 Business Communications classes Fall 07.
• Dr. Dahui Li in MIS has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure. Congratulations Dahui.
• Dr. Dahui has also developed a Business in China course, and he will be traveling with his students in this class to China in May 08.
• Professor Nik Hassan has accepted the appointment to serve as LSBE Technology Director. He will still be teaching half-time in the MIS area.
• Professor Jill M Klingner R.N. Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Health Care and Operations Management, with colleagues, Ira Moscovice Ph.D. at the Upper Midwest Rural Health Research Center, and Robyn Carlson R.H.I.T. at StratisHealth, Minnesota’s Quality Improvement Organization developed seven hospital transfer communication measures that have been recommended for endorsement by the steering committee of the National Quality Forum. The measures await the final vote in early November 2007 by the Board of Directors. The measures were developed for Emergency Departments of small rural hospitals to target the key functions of stabilization and transfer. Without complete timely communication, continuity of care is impossible and adverse events more probable. Complete communication also works toward cost containment by preventing unnecessary test replication. The National Quality Forum (NQF) is a not-for-profit membership organization created to develop and implement a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting. Established as a public-private partnership, the NQF has broad participation from all parts of the health care system.
• Professor Klingner also attended the National Rural Health Association Annual Conference in Anchorage Alaska in May 2007. She presented the findings from the research study entitled Implementing Patient Safety Initiatives in Rural Hospitals. The purpose of this project was to: 1) implement three patient safety initiatives in small rural Tennessee hospitals using a collaborative model, and 2) to evaluate the process and tools used in the implementation to inform future rural patient safety initiatives. The project has increased attention to patient safety culture, error reporting and prescribing practices. Support from external organizations, University of Southern Maine, THA and Q-Source was key to the success for this project. The challenge for expansion is sustaining intervention capacity. Replication of this initiative is possible with careful consideration of internal and external timelines and resources. Prior to the conference Jill participated in a two-day bus trip to remote Alaskan communities to see first hand the unique health care environments, to experience the unique health care needs of Alaska’s rural and frontier communities and to understand the unique solutions to complex health care delivery challenges. These Alaskan Experiences were sponsored by the Alaska Rural Health Conference planning committee. A DVD of Jill’s trip is available in the department.
• Jim Vizanko made a presentation to a group of Wells Fargo corporate bankers on January 22, 2007. The topic of the presentation was Corporate Finance Theory vs. Practice. The theme of this discussion was cash flow (theory) vs. accounting statements (practice) and how many firms in their efforts to maximize accounting results do not always maximize cash flows.