[Iefac.list] Special Issue Announcement

[Ali Kamrani]

Call for Papers               
Industrial and Systems Engineering Research for Patient-Centric Health Care
Delivery


 


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Special Issue Editors

Abe Zeid

Northeastern University

 <mailto:zeid at coe.neu.edu> zeid at coe.neu.edu

Sagar Kamarthi 

Northeastern University

 <mailto:Sagar at coe.neu.edu> Sagar at coe.neu.edu

Vinod Sahney

Northeastern University

 <mailto:v.sahney at neu.edu> v.sahney at neu.edu

Important Dates

Dec 31, 2012

Manuscript submission

Mar 1, 2013

Notification of disposition of manuscript

Mar  31, 2013

Final Revision

Apr 15, 2013

Final Paper Acceptance Decision

Summer 2013

Publication 

Manuscript Submission

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Contact

Contact the special issue editors for additional information

Research Issues in Patient-Centric Health Care Delivery


Delivery of operationally and economically efficient healthcare is becoming
one of the national priorities in the US. The healthcare experts universally
agree that focus on individuals and participation of individuals in their
care is important to transform health care systems from reactive to
preventive, from clinic-centric to patient-centric, and from
disease-centered to wellness centered. The much talked about smart health
and wellbeing programs promotes safe, effective, efficient, equitable, and
patient-centered health and wellness services through research and
innovations. Patient-centric health care needs creation of baseline data for
each and every individual separately. Application of population based
specifications to a specific individual may lead to wrong diagnosis and
treatment particularly when the individual differs from the population due
to various factors such as genetics, environment and socioeconomic
conditions, and medical history.

The Institute of Medicine, the National Academy of Engineering, the Agency
for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the National Science Foundation
have been strongly advocating the application of industrial and systems
engineering tools to improve the health care delivery system. The
application of industrial and systems engineering principles and tools to
model, analyze, optimize, and design patient-centric health care delivery
systems including services for diagnosis, treatment, and care can bring
significant and lasting improvements to the US healthcare system and the
quality of life across the population.


Special Issue of International Journal of Collaborative Enterprise


This special issue focuses on research issues that support patient-centric
health care delivery systems that are modular, dynamically configurable,
distributed, responsive, expansive, flexible, and resilient.  The special
issue seeks research contributions that address computational, algorithmic,
and systemic issues related to patient-centric healthcare delivery. Research
contributions from diverse communities including industrial engineering,
systems engineering, management science, and health services are welcome.
The topics of interest include, but not limited to, the following:

 

*	Descriptive, predictive and simulation models of patient-centric
health care delivery.
*	Decision support tools to make optimal patient-centered
evidence-based decisions.
*	Methods for measuring and optimizing operations to improve quality
and productivity of patient-centric healthcare delivery systems.
*	Performance and economic models of delivery systems to support
operations management decisions.
*	Algorithms for stratification of patients and individuals based
clinical, biomedical, and environmental data.
*	Algorithms for discovery of knowledge from aggregated population
health records and for drawing inferences based on individual or population
health data.
*	Information retrieval and data mining systems for personalized
medicine
*	Rapid response supply chain to support personalized health care.
*	Evaluation of technology and incentives toward patient-centric
goals.
*	Information technology that support communications among medical
information systems in the clinic, at home, and on person.
*	Lean concepts and practices for customized diagnosis, treatment, and
care.
*	Personalized and context-aware human-computer interfaces for a
variety of tasks including patient, family and caregiver access to
electronic health records and personal health records.
*	Telemedicine applications that promote patient-centric diagnosis,
treatment, and care and empower patients and healthy individuals to
participate in their own health and treatment via customized-education and
visualization of health data and knowledge.

 

 

Regards,

 

Ali K. Kamrani, Ph.D., P.E.

Associate Professor and Director

Industrial Engineering Department

Design and Free Form Fabrication Laboratory

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Collaborative Enterpirse - IJCent

Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Rapid Manufacturing - IJRapidM

University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-4008, USA
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