TY - GEN
T1 - The future of healthcare through a systems approach
AU - Ravitz, Alan
AU - Grant, Michael C.
AU - Grant, Conrad
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/8/7
Y1 - 2018/8/7
N2 - This paper offers a perspective on how a Systems Approach framework, that involves Systems Thinking and the System Development Lifecycle, can be applied in collaborative innovation to ensure that healthcare achieves value, safety, accessibility, and positive patient outcomes. Approaching problem solving in healthcare from a Systems Thinking perspective reinforces the need to maintain a holistic, rather than reductionist, view when designing systems. Coupled with the System Development Lifecycle that provides a requirementsdriven process that progresses from conception through realization, one can create a feedback loop to ensure a continually improving system. Utilizing this approach through transdisciplinary teams, involving both engineers and healthcare professionals, that consider challenges from an integrated conceptual framework, allows the team to formulate and evaluate solutions based on the insights from across the disciplines. The result is the creation and deployment of robust solutions that improve value and advance learning.
AB - This paper offers a perspective on how a Systems Approach framework, that involves Systems Thinking and the System Development Lifecycle, can be applied in collaborative innovation to ensure that healthcare achieves value, safety, accessibility, and positive patient outcomes. Approaching problem solving in healthcare from a Systems Thinking perspective reinforces the need to maintain a holistic, rather than reductionist, view when designing systems. Coupled with the System Development Lifecycle that provides a requirementsdriven process that progresses from conception through realization, one can create a feedback loop to ensure a continually improving system. Utilizing this approach through transdisciplinary teams, involving both engineers and healthcare professionals, that consider challenges from an integrated conceptual framework, allows the team to formulate and evaluate solutions based on the insights from across the disciplines. The result is the creation and deployment of robust solutions that improve value and advance learning.
KW - Healthcare
KW - System Development Lifecycle
KW - System of Systems
KW - Systems Engineering
KW - Systems Thinking
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U2 - 10.1109/SYSOSE.2018.8428781
DO - 10.1109/SYSOSE.2018.8428781
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85052329181
SN - 9781538648766
T3 - 2018 13th System of Systems Engineering Conference, SoSE 2018
SP - 527
EP - 534
BT - 2018 13th System of Systems Engineering Conference, SoSE 2018
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 13th System of Systems Engineering Conference, SoSE 2018
Y2 - 19 June 2018 through 22 June 2018
ER -