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Purdue University

2006

Healthcare delivery

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Defining The Initial Attributes Of A Consistent Exceptional Ascension Health Experience, Sandra Liu Jul 2006

Defining The Initial Attributes Of A Consistent Exceptional Ascension Health Experience, Sandra Liu

RCHE Presentations

Consumers are becoming the driving force to the innovation of healthcare delivery in the knowledge economy (Morath 2003:Scott 2003)


A Healthcare-Delivery System For The Next Generation May 2006

A Healthcare-Delivery System For The Next Generation

RCHE Publications

On May 2-3, 2006, Purdue University, BlueCross BlueShield Association, and WellPoint, Inc. hosted 24 CEO-level healthcare executives representing a diverse cross section of the healthcare supply chain to design the U.S. healthcare-delivery system for the next generation. Participants were challenged to envision the ideal system for the future, without regard to the constraints of today’s technologies, infrastructure, or financial systems. The Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering at Purdue University was tasked to present the summit discussion in the form of a white paper that represents the view of the summit participants.


The Regenstrief Center For Healthcare Engineering: Designing, Implementing And Sustaining Interdisciplinary Solutions To Transform Healthcare Delivery Systems, Steve Witz, Joseph Pekny, Leroy Schwarz Mar 2006

The Regenstrief Center For Healthcare Engineering: Designing, Implementing And Sustaining Interdisciplinary Solutions To Transform Healthcare Delivery Systems, Steve Witz, Joseph Pekny, Leroy Schwarz

RCHE Publications

With start-up funding provided by the Regenstrief Foundation, Purdue University has created the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering (RCHE) to design, implement, and sustain interdisciplinary solutions to improve the safety, quality, efficiency and accessibility of healthcare delivery systems. RCHE’s primary goal is to bring a systems-analysis approach to improving the processes of healthcare delivery, not to provide tools or techniques for medical research, diagnosis, or treatment. This article will describe RCHE’s business model; that is, how RCHE “engineers” interdisciplinary solutions, using the multiple perspectives of healthcare and multiple project time scales to organize and leverage healthcare delivery transformation. We then …