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Three Levels of Health System Technology
Level 1 to Level 2 is a shift to systems where a significant amount of care is provided by healthcare workers, using digital health tools, in integrated systems.
Quality in Medicine: Upper vs Lower Limits
It is embarrassing that healthcare does not assess its quality with the same rigour of other industries. Measure medical quality in real-time, in the real-world.
Guns, Van Halen, and Brown M&Ms - Real Time Quality Checks
At the airport I saw a gun appear on the x-ray scanner. Van Halen refused to allow Brown M&Ms on stage. Real-time quality checks are a critical part of any industry.
International Classification of Health Workers - Definitive Guide
Looking for a definitive list of all healthcare worker occupations divided into official categories?
Some more tools from Toyota Production System and work (re)design.
A quick chapter about hospital facility planning and design
A high level overview of some consideration in designing inventory systems.
This chapter is too old. Don’t read it.
Another very brief chapter summary.
A Markov Devision Process may help a situation of uncertainty that involves sequential decision making.
Bed capacity cannot be assessed base on occupancy levels. As occupancy levels (utilization) increases, the queue grows exponentially.
I left out the math, makes this a very short chapter.
Computer simulation in healthcare needs to combine model developers with subject matter experts for best results.
Some high level ideas how to spread evidence-based practices.
Failure Mode Effects Analysis helps proactively study possible sources of risk and ways to mitigate this.
Lean is a popular tool to improve productivity and organization in Healthcare. And it works.
The size of a physician practice can have dramatic effects on the length of the patient cue.
Tracking healthcare performance is difficult.
Healthcare engineering can propose some concepts to help integrate healthcare service delivery.