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IEMS 385: Introduction to Health Systems Engineering


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Prerequisites

IEMS 303 and IEMS 313

Description

Students will explore health systems, lean concepts, patient-flow analysis, inference, and data-driven knowledge generation, decisions, and change; forecasting, operations, and optimization of health resources. This course is a major requirement for Industrial Engineering.

  • This course is an IE/OR elective for Industrial Engineering. It can also be used to satisfy the Production & Logistics requirement for the major.

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

 MATERIALS

Lecture Notes "Introduction to Health Systems Engineering", Sanjay Mehrotra and Kevin Bui.  A PDF will be provided through the course's Canvas site, and physical copies can be ordered through Quartet Printing in Evanston.