New CEC Report Examines Where 5 Billion Kilograms of Industrial Pollutants Go Every Year in North America

Flagship Commission for Environmental Cooperation report shows that industrial facilities in Canada, Mexico and the United States together reported releases and transfers of approximately 5 billion kilograms of pollutants each year, including about 335 million kg transferred off site for disposal. The special analysis in this year’s report was developed in response to concerns about some of these waste disposal practices, such as landfills and application to land or soils, that can release contaminants into the environment and result in long-term (or legacy) contamination and community public health impacts, even across national borders.

Pangaea celebrates 25 years in Business

Twenty Five years ago, a couple of scientists working as researchers at a US National R&D Lab made the decision to create a company focused on improving the decision support process by providing decision makers actionable intelligence through the analysis and modeling of large data sets.  We were young, optimistic and devoid of any business experience.  My colleague, Dr. Jae K Lee and I embarked on a journey that created a thriving company, permitted us to travel the globe, meet wonderful people and allowed us the opportunity to learn along the way.

Building Capability to Manage Under Normal Conditions Helps Prepare for a Crisis

Long wait times are often associated with health care delivery, even under “normal” circumstances.  This is a symptom of an organization that: 1. can’t effectively calculate and maintain staff and space requirements that align with patient demand, 2. adjust to “normal” daily volume fluctuations in real-time, and 3. follow staff-developed best practices that reliably produce needed outcomes, provide a sustainable workload and make problems more visible (help to define normal to make abnormal conditions obvious).

IEX Webinar - Emergency Room Andon System

On February 28, 2020, Pangaea’s Miki Ferenczy and Shon Doseck, along with IBM’s Hank Buccella presented a webinar sponsored by the Institute for Enterprise Excellence which describes the Andon system that we developed at Rush University Medical Center, in Chicago, Illinois. This system helps to facilitate the flow of patients by giving staff re-time information about the status of flow, and suggestions to make flow improve.

Please view the webinar on youtube.