Closing the Loop by Operationalizing Systems Engineering and Design (CLOSED)
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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
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Cory Stasko

Cory Stasko is an engineering and policy fellow at the Institute. Cory completed his BS in Industrial Engineering at Northeastern summa cum laude and has worked at the Institute in a number of capacities since 2010. In that time, he has worked on projects involving queueing and agent-based models, system dynamics, Monte Carlo simulation, optimization, economic modelling, machine learning, signal detection, and network models. This work has been applied to a variety of domains including patient flow, staffing, scheduling, medical decision making, population management, network management, infection control, and antimicrobial stewardship. In his current position, Cory leads multiple research projects and plays a variety of roles related to other Institute work with an emphasis on mentorship and tackling questions of healthcare policy. From 2006 to 2011, Cory served as Director of Technology and Operations for the non-profit Help Kenya Project, overseeing the collection, refurbishment, and distribution of 2,700 computers to schools in Kenya. Cory is currently pursuing an SM in Technology and Policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Email: c.stasko@neu.edu
Joined HSyE: 2010
Hometown: ccc
Education: degree, university (year);
Research Interests: ccc (1-3)
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