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IE 4501 - Health Care Systems Engineering

3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
Health care as an industry is becoming an increasingly large part of the national and world economies at the same time that health care costs are escalating at an unsustainable rate. The purpose of this class is to increase the student’s understanding of how to apply proven industrial engineering methods to health care-related problems. Potential topics include statistical process control for medical applications; process improvement in health care delivery; simulation of health care services; time-based patient flow enhancement; resource scheduling optimization; hospital and clinic layout and facilities design; health care financing and cost management; and quality and other metrics for health care. (prereq: IE 2030 , IE 2450 , IE 3820  or consent of instructor)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  • Understand how industrial engineering principles and methods can be applied to health care services
  • Explain and describe major health care processes from an engineering-based perspective
  • Understand key performance metrics that are utilized to analyze the effectiveness of health care quality and delivery
  • Apply engineering concepts and methods, including human factors, quality tools, operations research/simulation modeling, and facilities design, to health care-related problems
  • Conduct cost-based comparisons and investment justifications in a health care environment
Prerequisites by Topic
  • None
Course Topics
  • Introduction to health care processes
  • Applying engineering methods to health care services
  • Information technology management in health care
  • Use of bar coding, RFID, and other tracking systems in health care
  • Human factors and medical errors
  • Quality assurance and statistical process control in health care
  • Mistake-proofing in health care
  • Modeling of health care processes and systems
  • Health care layouts and facilities design
Coordinator
Dr. Leah Newman


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