Foundations of Healthcare Systems Engineering

Foundations of Healthcare Systems Engineering

Instructor: Dr. Matthew (Matt) Montoya

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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6 hours to complete

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4 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

305 reviews

6 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll 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.

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Through dynamic video lectures and practical application questions, you will learn about the Foundations of Healthcare Systems Engineering. In this course you will learn about the current lack of synchronized, efficient, and integrated healthcare systems, which are some of the drivers for improvements to healthcare delivery. Also in this course, you will learn about the different types of systems and how they are translated to the healthcare field for appropriate systems engineering process applications, with exemplars. Upon system type articulation and mapping, the systems engineering approach will be introduced to help begin the process of: 1) investigating healthcare challenges, needs, and requirements development; 2) developing system concepts, that are derived from requirements, and then realized in physical and process form; and finally, 3) the establishment of means to verify, validate, and deploy healthcare systems that address the need and meet requirements. Applications and exemplars will be provided.

In this module, you will be introduced to the drivers and needs to improve healthcare and how systems engineering can enable this betterment.

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6 videos1 assignment2 plugins

6 videosTotal 60 minutes

What is Healthcare?7 minutes
What is a Healthcare System and Healthcare Delivery?4 minutes
Delivery of Healthcare Services6 minutes
Healthcare Delivery Markets and System Drivers6 minutes
Why Systems Engineering for Healthcare?6 minutes
Michael C. Grant, MD (Whiting School of Engineering Fall Faculty Meeting Keynote Speaker)31 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Healthcare Drivers30 minutes

2 pluginsTotal 15 minutes

What is a Health System? [YouTube]8 minutes
Systems Thinking for Health Systems Strengthening [YouTube]7 minutes

This module will introduce you to the different system types, their characteristics, attributes, with exemplars.

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4 videos1 assignment

In this module, the systems engineering approach will be introduced to enable you to conceptualize the application for healthcare system challenge resolution.

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7 videos1 assignment

7 videosTotal 47 minutes

What is Systems Engineering?6 minutes
Needs, Requirements, Concept Exploration, and Architectures7 minutes
Architecture Characteristics and Functions7 minutes
Types of Requirements and Critical Elements of Systems Design6 minutes
Scope & Context, Interfaces, and Systems Integration8 minutes
Test & Evaluation, Production & Deployment7 minutes
What is In-Service Monitoring and Updates?6 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Systems Engineering Approach30 minutes

This module will introduce you to the variety of healthcare systems and then map these systems to the appropriate system type for systems engineering application within the systems engineering approach.

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8 videos1 reading1 assignment1 plugin

8 videosTotal 53 minutes

Problem Scope, Baseline, and Scenarios & Use-Cases7 minutes
Healthcare Concepts Exploration and Architectures7 minutes
Applying Functions and Requirements in Healthcare Systems6 minutes
Deriving Requirements and Allocating in Systems Design7 minutes
Healthcare Systems Interfaces and Integration5 minutes
Risks of Integration and Healthcare Systems Testing & Evaluation7 minutes
Healthcare Systems Production & Deployment, In-Service Monitoring & Updates7 minutes
"-ilities" of In-Service Monitoring & Updates and Course Wrap-Up7 minutes

1 readingTotal 1 minute

Special Note: Audio Gap1 minute

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Healthcare Systems Engineering Approach Applications30 minutes

1 pluginTotal 15 minutes

Peter J. Provonost, MD, PhD [YouTube]15 minutes

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Dr. Matthew (Matt) Montoya

Johns Hopkins University

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Reviewed on Jan 22, 2021

This was a great course. Really enjoyed learning about the intricacies of healthcare systems and how we can reimagine healthcare delivery.

Reviewed on Feb 20, 2021

VERY INFORMATIVE, THANKS.Good course. I need to get my certificate. thanks & regards to the instructors.

Reviewed on Nov 1, 2020

Awesome foundational course on healthcare systems engineering, well applied engineering concepts in a health systems perspective.

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