Systems Engineering in Healthcare Delivery
The healthcare system is complex and adaptive and confronts significant challenges for which systems engineering tools are useful and necessary. The (President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology prepared a report concluding the healthcare improvement could be accelerated with the use of systems engineering. They noted that they key incentives are wrong (fee for service vs. fee for outcomes), and key enablers are missing (access to useful data, lack accepted systems techniques and people trained in systems engineering)
We start with an overview, provide some historical context, and describe some different approaches to systems engineering which have been found helpful in addressing healthcare delivery problems.
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