This is the 34th year of the prestigious competition, which has recognized
techniques that have changed our technical and business landscape.
UMassOnline, the University of Massachusetts' Web-based learning
division, began hosting UMass Medical School's Continuing Medical
Education program in January 2005.

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and across the world, and frequently identifies
unfolding trends in business and government .

-- General Motors, whose custom throughput analysis models of GM
production lines saved hundreds of millions of dollars in over 30 GM
plants and 10 countries. Though the number varies according to medical
specialty, doctors are generally required to have more than fifty
hours of continuing medical education per year to maintain their
licenses.edu/entities/cme /uploads/CMESample.

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HANOVER, Md.S. and Carnegie Mellon
University), which was presented with a potential $262 million in
savings from a next-generation procurement process developed for the
Fortune 500 company.
The finalist papers will be published in the January, 2006 issue of the
INFORMS publication Interfaces. The Medical School joins the other
four UMass campuses in a system-wide effort to make education more
accessible to the public through affordable, high quality online
education.

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-- Procter + Gamble (working with CombineNet Inc. (working with Aspen Technology), which created a
scheduling and capable-to-promise application to improve operations at
the food giant. Recent Edelman finalists can be viewed at
http://www. Health care providers must keep abreast of the broad array
of clinical research findings amid the pace of medical advances in
order to provide the best care to patients.

For More Information:

Physicians interested in enrolling in one of these new learning
modules or seeking further information on Continuing Medical Education
courses offered by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, can
go to http://www.leary@umassmed.

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The winner
will be announced Tuesday, April 19.

The Edelman Award recognizes outstanding implemented operations research
that has had a significant , positive impact on the performance of a client
organization. Members of INFORMS
work in business , government, and academia. They are represented in fields as
diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, financial
engineering, and telecommunications.
Online courses are an ideal solution; providing a flexible, Web-based
delivery mechanism that increases the accessibility of CME programs
for national and potentially international audiences.

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Army, the City of New Haven , and Texas Children's Hospital, have been
spotlighted.
This year's finalists include:

-- The Athens 2004 Olympic Committee (working with Athens University),
which responded to the challenge of planning the Olympics by
developing an advanced Operations Research- and systems dynamics-based
tool.

-- Eli Lilly, a leading pharmaceutical company , uniquely turned to math
modeling in reviving ALIMTA(R), an antifolate cancer-fighting drug . The INFORMS website is
http://www.

Online Education Saves Time for Busy Health Care Professionals; The University of Massachusetts Medical School Offers Online Lectures through UMassOnline

edu/cme /online_cme/PrimaryCareDays.edu/cme, or contact Denise Leary at the
Office of Continuing Education , 508-856-6943,
denise. Online
programs span the broad range of academic disciplines that UMass is
known for: education, IT, nursing, public health, management, criminal
justice, hospitality and tourism, and the liberal arts.

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S. Previous
winners include Continental Airlines, Canadian Pacific Railroad, and Sabre
Decision Technologies.informs.
Launched in conjunction with UMassOnline, the online courses are a
natural extension of UMass Medical School's Continuing Medical
Education (CME) Program which has been delivering 'live' lectures by
nationally recognized experts for many years.

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Innovations at IBM, Motorola, GM, NBC, Mars, and Merrill Lynch, as well as
the U.
"Given health care providers' need to remain current and meet
their professional CME requirements , combined with a growing desire
for more flexible learning environments, it is only natural that we
extend the UMassOnline model to Continuing Medical Education," says
Cheryl R. The demo
is taken from a course entitled "Preventable Medical Errors" by Eric J
Alper, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine.

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They can also participate in an interactive discussion with
other participants and with the presenters.umassmed. Today, UMassOnline delivers 45 graduate, undergraduate and
non-credit degrees and certificates, as well as 300 online courses
annually, to diverse, geographically disparate learners.

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These
include dynamic pricing , which revolutionized pricing in the airlines and
hospitality industries; Diagnostic Related Groups , which saved $50 billion in
costs faced by the Medicare system in the 1980s; and new methods of conducting
online product procurement auctions, managing the supply chain, and fighting
AIDS. First, the video narration
linked to the slide presentations creates a more dynamic learning
experience than can be attained in static text-based courses.

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Last year, Motorola and Emptoris were recognized for achieving increased
productivity and reduced costs at the electronics manufacturer. For a brief demonstration, go to
http://www.

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The top finalist receives a $10,000 first prize.scienceofbetter .org.

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Information
about the conference is online at http://informs. Virtual attendees can also print out the class notes and
assess their new knowledge using an online, open-book quiz that can be
repeated. Introduced in
early 2001 by the University President and Board of Trustees to serve
community educational needs and increase access to a UMass education,
UMassOnline supported more than 16,000 enrollments and generated $15
million in revenue in 2004.

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The Edelman competition takes place Monday, April 18.----The University of
Massachusetts Medical School today launches a new online education
initiative that will help busy physicians and health care providers
stay abreast of current trends, new procedures and techniques.
In recent years, busy practitioners have found it increasingly
difficult to find time to attend lectures, many of which are off-site,
to satisfy the continuing education credit (CMEs) requirements for
their professions.umassmed.

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-- Swift + Co. "Online programs combine the best of both worlds -- a videotaped
live lecture by a faculty expert, with PowerPoint slides -- producing
a learning module that can be readily accessed from home or office.
This program differs from current online CME programs provided by
other medical institutions in two ways.

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org/Conf/Practice2005.org.org.
The first twenty modules available cover specialties including:
Neurology, Dermatology, Risk Management, Gastroenterology, and
Diabetes .pps. Online programs are closely
coupled with their face-to-face counterparts enabling UMassOnline to
offer fully accredited (NEASC) and nationally-recognized programs
online.

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The annual
contest highlights innovations in organizations that are profit and
nonprofit, in the U.

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WORCESTER, Mass.
Secondly, the opportunity to participate in a discussion group
enhances the experience.

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Traveling to attend
lectures while juggling a busy clinical practice can be cumbersome.
Participants can register and pay online and take the course at their
leisure.cfm or
http://www.

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, The Institute for Operations
Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS(R)) today announced six
finalists in its competition to win the 2005 Franz Edelman Award for
Achievement in Operations Research and the Management Sciences. Because of the project 's success, the tool is being considered
for use by the 2008 Olympic Committee.scienceofbetter . More information about operations research is at
http://www. Scheid, PhD, Vice Chancellor for Faculty Administration and
Interim Provost of UMMS, who leads the new online CME development
team.

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The Edelman competition has recognized the use of operations
research in significant cost savings, most recently $130 million at HP and
$600 million at Motorola.
The competition is being held at an INFORMS conference, "Applying Science
to the Art of Business," which takes place at The Westin Mission Hills Resort
in Rancho Mirage near Palm Springs, California, from April 17-19."
The result is a virtual experience that mirrors the on-site
experience: lecture "attendees" can view the presentation , listen to
the physician's narrative associated with each slide, and participate
in discussions with colleagues, all at a time convenient to the
learner.umassmed.edu

About UMassOnline

UMassOnline, the University of Massachusetts' system online
education consortium, delivers accredited , online programs from UMass
Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell and UMass Medical School via
interactive , Web-based learning systems.

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Operations Research, known as the "science of better," is the discipline
of applying advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions.

-- Nanzan Educational Complex (working with its parent Nanzan University
in Japan), which developed an educational planning system that
operates at every level from the strategic down to the daily
operational.
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
(INFORMS (R)) is an international scientific society with 10,000 members,
including Nobel Prize laureates, dedicated to applying scientific methods to
help improve decision-making, management, and operations .

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The 2005 finalists will compete in Palm Springs for the Franz Edelman
Award, which is presented by INFORMS and CPMS, the Practice Section of
INFORMS.