BUSINESSEngineering better care: A new approachA group of researchers is investigating what lessons engineering and manufacturing have for physicians on how to run their practices. Can what works for blue collars help white coats?By Tyler Chin, amednews staff. Oct. 4, 2004. What principles of engineering and manufacturing can help office-based physicians practice better medicine, improve efficiency and boost their incomes? Someone is about to answer that question. On Jan. 2, 2005, Indiana's Purdue University will launch the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, which will research and apply engineering, management, science and information technology to re-engineer health care delivery and quality. It will be working with the Regenstrief Institute, a medical informatics research entity affiliated with Indiana University School of Medicine, and the Indiana University Medical Group, a 138-doctor primary care practice in Indianapolis. Purdue, which has schools of nursing, pharmacy and health science but not medicine, expects to partner with other physician and health care entities, said Joseph Pekny, center interim director. "We very much want the physician perspective, and we very much expect to be apprentice to the physician perspective," Pekny said. He also is a professor of chemical engineering and director of the e-Enterprise Center at Discovery Park, an interdisciplinary campus at Purdue. The Regenstrief Foundation is providing $1 million annually for three years in start-up funding. The center also anticipates receiving federal grants and corporate and private funding. For a physician's perspective, AMNews interviewed Thomas Inui, MD, president and CEO of the Regenstrief Institute. Dr. Inui, an internist, is also associate dean for health care research and professor of medicine at IU School of Medicine. [...]Full text of American Medical News content is available to AMA members and paid subscribers.
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