Health Care Systems Engineering

Catalog description

The course examines the technical structure of the healthcare delivery system and the role that industrial engineering (IE) plays in its design and improvement. Included will be how healthcare systems work in hospitals, medical offices, clinics and other healthcare organizations. Traditional IE methods for improving quality, patient safety, and employee productivity and satisfaction will be present within a systematic application of value chain engineering designed to produce lean processes. Students with a semester level of Freshman 1, Freshman 2 or Sophomore 1 may not enroll.