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ESD researchers take a systems view to make health
care delivery more efficient by applying inventory theory and
process improvement methods to the operations of hospitals and
their supply chains. Much of the work involves the analysis of
trade-offs between risks and benefits of patient treatments; between
costs and level of service; and between individual rights and
society’s goals. Such work involves not only technology
development and implementation but also a deep understanding of
the organizational and ethical issues, as well as the variety
of human behaviors involved.
Global Health Supply Chains
The lack of efficient supply chains for delivering health products
and commodities is one of the reasons for the slow improvement
in health outcomes. Such inefficiencies are especially pronounced
in areas of the world such as sub Saharan Africa where the prevalence
of communicable diseases is extremely high. The faculty, researchers
and doctoral students at the Zaragoza Logistics Center work with
many international partners to address these challenges, creating
new knowledge around supply chains for global health. Read
more.
Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions for Flu
Preparedness and Response
This research focuses on the simple behavioral changes that can
reduce the incidence of infection. Merging probabilistic model
building with social science and management principles, this research
shows that simple, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) could
significantly reduce the death toll of an epidemic. Read
more.
Driving Innovation in Aging and Human Technology
Innovation
Understanding how older people learn, interact, and adopt technology
is critical to moving inventions into everyday use. AgeLab—in
collaboration with colleagues in Aeronautics and Astronautics,
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Brain and Cognitive
Sciences, and the Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Laboratory—is
working to design a car that enables older people to drive safely
longer. Read more.
New Approaches to Accident Modeling and
System Safety
ESD researchers are developing new, more powerful accident causality
models and risk management techniques that can handle the complexity
of today’s technical and social systems. Using systems and
control theory as the mathematical foundations and a causality
model (called STAMP) that expands traditional models, the researchers
are constructing computational models of the static (structural)
and dynamic aspects of complex, socio-technical systems to provide
information about potential risks. Read
more.
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LGO Senior Lecturer Steven Spear interviewed by
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality - podcast
and transcript available online
“MIT
Center for Biomedical Innovation Joins the Engineering Systems
Division” (February 27, 2009)
“AgeLab
convenes roundtable on future of robotics & eldercare contributing
to NIST National Needs white paper” (March 13, 2009)
Group
imagines — and works on — a nursing home designed
with the input of patients (The Providence Journal - November
14, 2008)
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“Process Improvement in the Rarefied
Environment of Academic Medicine”
Brunel Lecture on Complex Systems (2007)
Paul Levy, President & CEO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center
View
on MIT World.
“Engineering Systems Solutions to
Real World Challenges in Healthcare”
The IBM-MIT/ESD Innovation Lecture Series (2006)
View on MIT World.
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Reasonable
Rx: Solving the Drug Price Crisis
Stan Finkelstein, Peter Temin
Chronic
care Driving a Fundamental Shirt in Health Care Supply Chains
Dr. Mahender Singh
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