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IEMS 385: Introduction to Health Systems Engineering

Description

Health systems, lean concepts, patient-flow analysis, inference, and data-driven knowledge generation, decisions, and change. Forecasting, operations, and optimization of health resources

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Students will be able to apply a systems engineering approach to health care problems
• Students will incorporate tools and techniques from industrial engineering, statistics, operations research, and management sciences embedded in information technology, to address healthcare problems

 TOPICS

• Use of basic industrial and systems engineering tools for process improvement
• Quality control in healthcare
• Risk assessment classification
• Decisions in healthcare
• Patient volume predictions
• Facility utilization modeling
• Staffing, scheduling and capacity management

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