Forum on Engineering a Resilient Healthcare System

About the Event

A resilient health system requires processes, resources, and engineering systems that assure the health and well-being of patients, clinicians, and staff at all levels of the ecosystem, ranging from hospitals, clinics to homes. The system must be designed, developed, and operated to achieve these ends. State-of-the-art medical practices are necessary, but not sufficient for success. All processes must be integrated to provide effective, efficient, safe and secure operations and outcomes. This presents substantial challenges in the highly fragmented US health system.

Sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering and Virginia Tech, the Forum on Engineering a Resilient Health System will bring together multi-disciplinary expertise from health, engineering, economics and behavioral and social sciences to formulate evidence-based approaches to address these challenges and envision ways forward to fostering a unifiable complex health system, despite the economic, cultural and social roots of fragmentation.