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Decision Intelligence
from Healthcare Systems Modeling and Simulation (General)
November 23, 2013 6:50 PM
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Scoop.it!
Decision Intelligence's insight:
This paper is chock full of complex systems insights for health care. For example:
- In workgroup competition, the
objective is to be a top performer according to carefully designed metrics that measure both cost and quality.
- The interplay between multiple causes of a single
condition, or multiple aspects of its treatment, makes it difficult for the separated specialists to address such complex problems.
- The current design
of the US healthcare system involves the use of “gatekeepers” who serve to route individuals to the care they need. Evidence suggests that this task has become the rate limiting step.
Human's limitations on understanding the non-linearities in complex systems inevitable lead to unintended consequences. Tools for understanding complexity that are accessible to business people and policy makers are desperatey needed.