Healthcare process improvement is now a high priority in developed healthcare economies, where inefficiencies are widespread, leading to inadequate clinical care, adverse outcomes and needless costs. Achieving system-level change within and across complex healthcare organisations has often proved to be difficult and challenging. Many have recognised the need for novel approaches, drawing on systems perspectives and accounting for the complexities of the contexts in which the systems operate.
This workshop will build upon systems-based approaches to healthcare process improvement, drawing from lessons learned in manufacturing industries. Participants will examine new opportunities occasioned by availability of information technology, clinical databases, and novel approaches to management of supply chains, as levers to improve healthcare processes and outcomes. A key question for consideration will be whether to “engineer” new processes or redesign existing ones to make the best use of “state of the art” practices.
The goal for the workshop is to develop an agenda for research among faculty at Cambridge University, Imperial College and MIT, working with “real world” collaborators, aiming to add value to those in Europe and the U.S., who are on the “front lines” of dealing with these complex issues.
Participants include:
- Thomas Allen, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management & Engineering Systems Division (ESD)
- Rifat Atun, M.D., Professor, Center for Health Management, Imperial College, London
- John Carroll, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management & Engineering Systems Division (ESD) John Glaser, CIO, Partner’s Healthcare, Boston
- Stan Finkelstein, M.D., Senior Research Scientist, MIT Engineering Systems Division (ESD) & Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
- Michael Hammer, Hammer and Company & Visiting Professor, MIT Engineering Systems Division (ESD)
- Malcolm Lowe-Lauri, Chief Executive, King’s College Hospital, London
- Christopher Magee, MIT
- Ken Mandl, M.D., Children’s Hospital Informatics Program/Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology
- Jem Rashbass, M.D., Cambridge University
- James Reid
- Paul Walley, Lecturer, Warwick University, U.K.
Attendance at this event is by invitation only. If you would like to receive an invitation, please email the event organiser.
Collaborating Universities, Divisions and Centers:
- Cambridge University
- Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology
- Imperial College, Center for Health Management
- MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
- MIT Engineering Systems Division
- MIT Office of Corporate Relations
Venue
This event is being held in the Residence Inn by Marriott Hotel at MIT in Boston. For information on hotels in the area, please click here.
The workshop is being organised by the Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) to bring together major stakeholders from the healthcare sector to identify key issues impacting productivity of healthcare delivery in the developed economies. Through engagement and input from the workshop participants, it is intended to develop a programme of research in areas representing the major components of an integrated healthcare system. The initial support from CMI has created the partnership between Cambridge University, Imperial College and MIT, drawing in expertise in areas of clinical processes, information systems, medical technologies and policy development with the medium term view of establishing a stakeholder driven self sustainable international centre of excellence.
