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:
Research >> NSF Research Center
Quality and Productivity Research Laboratory (QPRL)
About
The Quality and Productivity Research Laboratory (QPRL) conducts theoretic and applied research in statistical quality control, experimental design, process improvement, and probabilistic optimization in a wide range of industrial healthcare and service applications. Recent projects have focused on statistical characterization of healthcare quality and patient safety, optimal cancer screening policies, statistical process control methods for rare events, powdered metal production processes, experimental design in the printed circuit board industry, inspection error and multiple inspection cost models, and new innovative approaches to multi-response optimization and data envelopment analysis.
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The lab maintains collaborative relationships with many associates from academia and industry, with funding for past and current research from the National Science Foundation, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, NIH, and various industry partners. Various QPRL members hold joint appointments, Board positions, associations or editorial positions with the Institute of Industrial Engineers, Society for Health Systems, Raytheon's Six Sigma Institute, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and numerous professional journals.
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