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:
Education >> Summer Conference
Summer Conference
The Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute's annual summer conference, "Gathering of the Fellows", facilitates a cross-disciplinary community where healthcare improvement fellows share project results, learn from each other, and develop intertwined networks. The common denominator of this intermingling of several healthcare improvement communities is a focus on healthcare improvement.
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Any healthcare improvement fellows are invited to attend. Day 1 is a sharing day, typically consisting of a mix of presentations, panels, and posters sessions. Day 2 is a learning day, with education and exercises about a unifying theme such as lean, variation, statistical control charts, innovation, and simulation. Attendees can be current or past fellows, and can present work as a poster or short presentation.