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:
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About NE-VERC
NE-VERC
The overall vision of the New England Veterans Engineering Resource Center (NE-VERC) is to integrate systems engineering principles and methods into the fabric of VA healthcare operations by building a unique collaboration to spread innovative engineering solutions. The objective is that the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) becomes a self-improving system with robust capabilities to address new needs arising over time. To accomplish this objective, NE-VERC has created a strong synergistic partnership between VISN 1, Northeastern University, and other academic partners that leverages our successful history of commitment and improvement of infrastructure, existing VISN 1 initiatives, and leading national academic experts in healthcare systems engineering and related fields.
NE-VERC's Vision
To: Integrate the principles and methods of systems engineering and related process improvement approaches into the daily fabric of healthcare delivery.
By: Creating a dynamic collaboration to foster the development, application, education, and spread of operational systems engineering methods.
So: Veterans Health Administration (VHA) will become a self-improving healthcare system with strong capability to address new needs and concerns that arise over time.