Redesigning Healthcare: Problems and Opportunities
This course will examine the crisis facing U.S. and global healthcare and then explore how technology systems will play critical roles in transforming healthcare solutions for the 21st century. This fall the focus is on redesigning the U.S. Health Care System by examining the current U.S. system, international systems, diseases and disasters, and education. The main goal is to use innovative approaches to solve the problems in the system. Includes systems for quality improvement, evidence-based medicine, simulation, VR training, medical informatics, cybercare, human systems integration, clinical information systems.
creditsPrerequisites: None -- Distributive: TAS.
Please review the 2007 lecture schedule
Photographs above illustrate course themes and speakers. Please visit the 2007 Course Schedule to review expert speakers and news-worthy topics, similar to the new schedule for 2008 (to be posted later).
Photographs of Myamar by permission Doctors Without
Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
Photographs of Vietnam Trip with InterPlast where taken by Joseph M. Rosen, M.D. , who has given permission for their use.
Permission for Photographic Materials on the DaVinci Tele-Surgery and
Surgical Simulation has been provided by Intuitive Surgical
-- Visit company website
(c)[2007] Intuitive Surgical, Inc.