Health Care
High rates of medical error, rising cost, and low quality of care have made health care a system in need of repair. Even though medical knowledge continues to advance and individual patient-physician relationships are effective, the healthcare system doesn’t serve its purpose. NECSI's health care research focuses on health care's underlying structure, including how to improve preventative medicine, how to lower overall cost, and how to enable effective execution of complex patient care.
Publications, Books & Edited Volumes
Y. Bar-Yam, Making Things Work: Solving Complex Problems in a Complex World See Chapters 10 and 11.Y. Bar-Yam, Improving the Effectiveness of Health Care and Public Health: A Multi-Scale Complex Systems Analysis, American Journal of Public Health. 96, 459-466 (2006). press release
Y. Bar-Yam, System Care: Multiscale analysis of Medical Errors—Eliminating errors and improving organizational capabilities, NECSI Technical Report (2004).
Y. Bar-Yam, Multiscale analysis of the healthcare and public health system: Organizing for achieving both effectiveness and efficiency, NECSI Technical Report (2004).
Y. Bar-Yam, DRAFT: Understanding the Healthcare / Medical System Crisis (2003).
Y. Bar-Yam, M. Dierks. Crisis in Medical Care: Spotlight Children's Hospital Boston (2003).
M. Smith, C. Feied, DRAFT: The Emergency Department as a Complex System. (1999)
M. Dierks, C. Christian, E. Roth, T. Sheridan, M. Gustafson, M. Zinner, DRAFT: Patient Safety in Complex Medical Settings: A Prospective Study in the Operating Room.
M. Smith, C. Feied, Design of an Emergency Department Process.