Closing the Loop by Operationalizing Systems Engineering and Design (CLOSED)
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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.
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Sunday, June 2, 2019
Sunday, June 2, 2019
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Vinod Sahney
Vinod Sahney, PhD, is University Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Northeastern University, Senior Fellow at The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), and Adjunct Professor of Health Policy and Management at Harvard University School of Public Health. Prior positions include Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts as Senior Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer from 2006 - 2010. Prior to joining Blue Cross and Blue Shield, he served as Senior Vice President at Henry Ford Health System for 25 years. Dr. Sahney has been elected to both the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Engineering. He is a founding member of Institute for Healthcare Improvement and served on its Board for over twenty years. He is former Chair of Veterans Administration Advisory Board for Engineering Research Center MA.
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Email: v.sahney@neu.edu
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Hometown: ccc
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