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David Belson, PhD. Healthcare Engineering: Working to improve productivity and quality. Health care costs are an ever increasing burden but there are ways to use engineering ideas to reduce costs while maintaining quality while improving the system. Basic methods such as Lean and Six Sigma are very effective. Over recent years I have completed a variety of projects, courses and research papers. Here are some and links to the details:. Lean Healthcare Certification from the California Quality Consortium.
healthcareengineering.usc.edu
Healthcare Engineering
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David Belson, PhD. HOSPITALS SERVED (partial list). San Francisco General Hospital. Reduce room turnover time and general patient flow, dashboard. ED patient flow, CT patient flow, digital simulation model of patient flow. LA County USC General Hospital. Several projects, overall patient flow and bottlenecks, radiology, surgery, GI, ED. Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. Surgery patient flow, room turnover time, communications, Pre Op/registration flow. Contra Costa County Medical Center. Surgery patien...