Foundations of Healthcare Systems Engineering
Through dynamic video lectures and practical application questions, you will learn about the Foundations of Healthcare Systems Engineering. In this course you will learn about the current lack of synchronized, efficient, and integrated healthcare systems, which are some of the drivers for improvements to healthcare delivery. Also in this course, you will learn about the different types of systems and how they are translated to the healthcare field for appropriate systems engineering process applications, with exemplars. Upon system type articulation and mapping, the systems engineering approach will be introduced to help begin the process of: 1) investigating healthcare challenges, needs, and requirements development; 2) developing system concepts, that are derived from requirements, and then realized in physical and process form; and finally, 3) the establishment of means to verify, validate, and deploy healthcare systems that address the need and meet requirements. Applications and exemplars will be provided.
Baseline the needs in healthcare delivery and articulate how and why the systems engineering approach can address many of the needs.
Enumerate the different system types, their attributes, characteristics, with exemplars.
Describe the systems engineering approach and conceptualize how to solve healthcare system challenges with this approach.
Delineate and map the variety of healthcare systems to the system types and begin systems engineering problem solving with exemplars.
Syllabus
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1
Healthcare Drivers
Week 2
System Types
Week 3
Systems Engineering Approach
Week 4
Healthcare Systems Engineering Approach Applications
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Reviews
Awesome foundational course on healthcare systems engineering, well applied engineering concepts in a health systems perspective.
Very interesting course that could help a lot in good Engineering of the Healthcare Systems
This course was a wonderful introduction into healthcare engineering. Very informative and interesting.
Great course content-wise. The slides could have been made available. As could have been the bibliography and a few applied examples to relate the concepts too.
