IE 1106 - OPERATIONS IMPROVEMENT IN HEALTHCARE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course leads students to apply basic industrial engineering tools to healthcare. This includes fact gathering through interviews & observation, process mapping, system analysis and modeling, work sampling, work study and workflow improvement. Using the health operations laboratory, students learn to model core operations of key hospital departments, and are required to develop expertise in one of the following areas: work measurement in healthcare, quality improvement in healthcare, department productivity management, supply chain management, patient workflow through a department.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: (IE 1040 and IE 1054) and (ENGR 0020 or IE 1070); PLAN: Industial Engineer (BEH or BSE)

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