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.
Foundations of Healthcare Systems Engineering
Instructor: Dr. Matthew (Matt) Montoya
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What you'll learn
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.
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There are 4 modules in this course
In this module, you will be introduced to the drivers and needs to improve healthcare and how systems engineering can enable this betterment.
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6 videos1 assignment2 plugins
This module will introduce you to the different system types, their characteristics, attributes, with exemplars.
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4 videos1 assignment
In this module, the systems engineering approach will be introduced to enable you to conceptualize the application for healthcare system challenge resolution.
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7 videos1 assignment
This module will introduce you to the variety of healthcare systems and then map these systems to the appropriate system type for systems engineering application within the systems engineering approach.
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8 videos1 reading1 assignment1 plugin
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Reviewed on Jan 16, 2021
I find thi course great introduction to the field of Healthcare Systems Engineering.
Reviewed on Jul 22, 2021
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.
Reviewed on Nov 1, 2020
Awesome foundational course on healthcare systems engineering, well applied engineering concepts in a health systems perspective.
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