Increasing demand and growing complexity of the delivery of healthcare is associated with
worsening performance in safety, delivery, quality and affordability. Systems engineering …

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Health-care delivery is a complex and fragmented system with work-around culture.
Improving health-care delivery requires innovating system interventions that redesign …

Systems engineers have worked in the service and manufacturing sectors for quite some
time. The concepts of systems engineering have been applied to problems in every sector of …

Healthcare delivery in the US and worldwide has been plagued with accelerating growth in
expenditures coupled with increasing concerns about the quality of the services and patient …

This paper argues that a systems approach can significantly enhance healthcare
improvement efforts in patient safety, service quality and healthcare cost containment. The …

Sub-Saharan Africa has the symptoms of a crisis in healthcare technology management
(HTM) which impacts adversely on healthcare delivery. The region is also at risk of …

Existing performance management approaches in health systems in low-income and middle-
income countries are generally ineffective at driving organisational-level and population …

The healthcare system is facing several major quality challenges. In 2005, the Institute of
Medicine published a report on how systems engineering and improvements in information …

Given the complexity of healthcare and the 'people'nature of healthcare work and delivery,
STSA (Sociotechnical Systems Analysis) research is needed to address the numerous …