Post By: David DeMeo
Harvard Business Review posted an article on February 9th describing the issues with the way hospitals and other health care operations are designed. The comparison between and the way an airplane and and a hospital are engineered is how they show the inefficiency in hospital productions.
In order to successfully engineer something a goal in the beginning is needed. The article uses the reference that when a plane is engineered it is not designed with wings and engines separately, but by using a goal to get a plane that can go a certain distance in a short amount of time and then creating a plane as a whole with that goal. In hospitals today pieces of high tech equipment are used, but not together.
The engineering mindset can create better health care and faster recoveries for everyone. A new technology that was presented in the article will create one screen where nurses and doctors can read all the machines. This will change the fact that all the machines cannot communicate. This program will connect all of them and make a more interactive recovery for the patient and family as well, because they will be all in one place and easy to read. This way of implementing the engineering mindset will raise the bar in hospitals and improve health care.
Source: Harvard Business Review
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