Curriculum / DescriptionsIEMS 385: Introduction to Health Systems Engineering
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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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