Industrial & Systems Engineering and Health Care: Critical Areas of Research Workshop

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The purpose of this project was to develop and propose a research agenda for how industrial and systems engineering may support health services research and health care delivery redesign, with a focus on health information technology (IT). The Health IT Portfolio at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the Service Enterprise Systems (SES) Program at the National Science Foundation (NSF) seek to strengthen partnerships between the health services community and the industrial and systems engineering community to achieve the portfolio and program goals set for AHRQ and SES. To that end, AHRQ and NSF co-funded a workshop to identify potential projects or topics where mutual benefit might be found.

Experts and leaders in the field were convened on September 21 and 22, 2009 in Washington, D.C., with the goal of developing an actionable research agenda. Deliverables from this workshop include a background report that summarizes and critiques past meetings to guide the current effort, a prioritized list of critical areas of research to be addressed, a list of suggested workshop topics to move the health services and industrial and systems research communities toward meeting health IT research objectives, and the dissemination of materials and products produced from this workshop.