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System Engineering
Several minimally used tools are:
Scheduling resources and healthcare workers better:
A true 24/7 scheduling in offices, clinics and hospitals would provide much better quality of care and a significant decrease in costs. People-healthcare workers will be willing and interested in this if reasonable incentives and consideration of their lives are part of the package. The technical tools to schedule times of work, availability for phone and web-based conferencing (described elsewhere) are now available. Many healthcare problems are complicated and too costly because people and information is not - available when, where and in the form needed.
Many tools to help with personalizing continuity of care are not integrated in practices.
With the ever-increasing needs of the military (both active and retired), it is only through the use of technology that the myriad and most assuredly large number of psychosocial and medical injury needs can be appropriately and accurately addressed.
The subject of medical records is given a lot of attention and marketing - but not enough support of the simpler tools for dealing with data overload. Neglected tools and assistance needed to do charting of the trends and interrelationships of the physical, psychological, social, work/school and random element of wellness and healthcare. Example: Maybe the concern about a car or child or wife is why someone is not responding to treatment. Are there other environmental problems contributing to depression, poor work performance, etc., that have been incorrectly diagnosed and treated?
Collaboration of a group of 100 doctors took place deal with the cost of setting up an electronic medical record/web system. Many more technical assists are available, but are not incorporated mainly due to the lack of collaboration and awareness of the human obstacles, including data mining.
These barriers to system engineering are frequently incorrectly attributed strictly to costs. Use of the above approaches would decrease costs, errors and hospitalizations and improve quality of care.
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