What you will 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.