Title :
Transforming Healthcare: Challenges and Opportunities
Author :
Sainfort, Francois
Author_Institution :
Georgia Institute of Technology, Director, Institute for Health Systems Engineering, Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Programs, College of Engineering, William W. George Professor of Health Systems, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineer
Abstract :
Dr. Sainfort will present challenges and opportunities related to applying systems engineering and management sciences approaches to transforming health care delivery systems from a current ineffective, reactive, disease-focused system to a future cost-effective, proactive, health-and wellness-focused system. Dr. Sainfort will provide background on the healthcare industry, present possible solution approaches and describe challenges and opportunities.
Conference_Titel :
Service Operations and Logistics, and Informatics, 2006. SOLI '06. IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0317-0
DOI :
10.1109/SOLI.2006.329102
