Healthcare Engineering

Healthcare Engineering

Program Director: Stephen Roberts, B.I.S.E., M.S.I.E., Ph.D.

MISSION STATEMENT

The application of science and technology to benefit society broadly defines engineering. Healthcare Engineering is an emerging concern with the “systems” of health care delivery arising primarily from the discipline of industrial and system engineering. The intellectual goal of Healthcare Engineering is to enable improvement of the health care delivery systems by developing data-driving models, tools, and processes to:

1. support medical decision and care delivery,
   
2. improve and optimize the care cycle,
   
3. enhance quality and safety, and
   
4. overcome fragmentation using patient-centric supply chain management.
   

Engineered health care delivery processes must be safe, effective, efficient, and accessible. Systems technology is expected to inform policy discussion, guide change, rationalize health care investment, and unleash innovation and entrepreneurship.