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
National Science Foundation Research Center
Aim
To identify and solve meaningful problems of common interest, expose and embed engineers in healthcare environments and develop the necessary next generation of practitioners to accomplish
widespread transformation.
Sub Projects 2017
Costs and Consequences of Poor Care Access
System Analysis of Graduate Medical Education Processes
Value-Based Care: Challenges of a Changing Paradigm
New Methods for Reducing Adverse Events and Harmful Overuse
Sub Projects 2016
About
The Center for Health Organization Transformation (CHOT) is a federally awarded National Science Foundation industry-university collaborative research center, co-funded by roughly 24 health systems across the U.S., to accelerate applied research and workforce development that integrates healthcare systems engineering, health services research, and health 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 in seven states.
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Partners & Research Team
Maine Medical Center
Partners Health (Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
MC Anderson Cancer Center
Seattle Children’s Hospital
Veteran’s Health Administration
Philips Healthcare
The MITRE Corporation