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.
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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.
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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
Approach:
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Results to Date:
Center for Health Organization Transformation (CHOT)
About
The Center for Health Organization Transformation (CHOT) is a federally awarded National Science Foundation (NSF) industry-university collaborative research center, which is, co-funded by roughly 24 health systems across the U.S. Its purpose serves, to accelerate applied research and workforce development that integrates healthcare systems engineering, health services research and policy. In addition to the Northeastern University site (Benneyan, principal investigator), the consortium includes renowned faculty at three other universities – (Georgia Institute of Technology, Pennsylvania State University, Texas A&M University) and healthcare systems across seven states.
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