Closing the Loop by Operationalizing Systems Engineering and Design (CLOSED)
Motivation:
Specific Aims :
Aim 1:​Use systems engineering and patient engagement to design, develop, and refine a highly reliable “closed loop” system for diagnostic tests and referrals that ensures diagnostic orders and follow-up occur reliably within clinically- and patient-important time-frames.
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Aim 2: Use systems engineering and patient engagement to design, develop, and refine a highly reliable “closed loop” system for symptoms that ensures clinicians receive and act on feedback about evolving symptoms and physical findings of concern to patients or clinicians.
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Aim 3: Design for generalizability across health systems more broadly so that the processes created in Aims 1 and 2 are effective in (1) a practice in an underserved community, (2) a large tele-medicine system, and (3) a representative range of simulated other health system settings and populations.
Partners:
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Approach:
Sunday, June 2, 2019
Results to Date:
Melike Hazal Can
BS, Industrial Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey (2010); MS, Industrial Engineering, BoÄŸaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey (2013)
Research interests: System Dynamics, Simulation, Disease Modeling, Healthcare Management in OR Applications, Optimization, Health and Humanitarian Logistics, Scheduling, Risk Analysis, Applied Statistics, Health Economics, Decision Analysis
Melike is a PhD student in Industrial Engineering. In her MS thesis, she developed a system dynamics model for insulin resistance and type II diabetes in the context of obesity. During her graduate studies, she was part of a project team that built a simulation model for operating room scheduling and staff management. In addition, she was involved in a research on analyzing the factors affecting patients' decisions to receive a second opinion. As a new member of HSyE, she is enthusiastic to work on the research team. She recently joined two projects on constructing a dynamic simulation model for antibiotics stewardship and improving emergency department after-hours access. Her hobbies include playing volleyball and tennis, cycling, swimming, playing guitar, cooking and chess.
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Email: m.can@neu.edu
Joined HSyE: ccc
Hometown: ccc
Education: degree, university (year);
Research Interests: ccc (1-3)
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Selected Publications
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