Closing the Loop by Operationalizing Systems Engineering and Design (CLOSED)
Motivation:
Specific Aims :
Aim 1:Use systems engineering and patient engagement to design, develop, and refine a highly reliable “closed loop” system for diagnostic tests and referrals that ensures diagnostic orders and follow-up occur reliably within clinically- and patient-important time-frames.
Aim 2: Use systems engineering and patient engagement to design, develop, and refine a highly reliable “closed loop” system for symptoms that ensures clinicians receive and act on feedback about evolving symptoms and physical findings of concern to patients or clinicians.
Aim 3: Design for generalizability across health systems more broadly so that the processes created in Aims 1 and 2 are effective in (1) a practice in an underserved community, (2) a large tele-medicine system, and (3) a representative range of simulated other health system settings and populations.
Partners:
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Approach:
Results to Date:
Broad regional and national impact on healthcare improvement through education, research, and application in systems engineering methods.
Research Portfolios
Our Mission
About Us
Northeastern University's Healthcare Systems Engineering (HSyE) program is a university-level institute that has focused on improving healthcare efficiency, quality, logistics, safety, flow, effectiveness, and access for more than 30 years. We have a simple mission: to broadly impact healthcare improvement through education, research, and application in systems engineering methods.
We accomplish this mission through our HSyE undergraduate and graduate academic programs, national experiential coop education and summer internship programs, three federally-awarded healthcare industrial engineering centers, competitive scholarships, and strategic partnerships. We rely on deep industry-university partnerships to advance the shared missions of healthcare improvement and workforce development.
We strive to balance application, research, education, and methods development. Please browse our pages and publications to see the breadth of our work and impact in the areas, and please contact us to become involved.
Education
Our Latest Research
Systems Engineering Collaboration to Analyze Internal Medicine Residency
Lambrew Research Retreat
Portland, ME, 2018