Good afternoon welcome to our
event on health systems My

name is from the archives can you talk I'm
the director of the Center for Health and

Human a theory and systems here in Georgia
Tech and also a member in the School of

Industrial and systems engineering I know
that they were love you came here from

other parts of Atlanta some of
you came here from out of town so

big welcome to all of you whether
you are from Georgia Tech or

other organizations visiting us
today especially on this rainy

weather day so
we really appreciate you all being here so

we have a fantastic program ahead of us
with wonderful speakers we will start with

a deputy fire station and
then continue into our panel but

I would like to say a couple of words
before we begin and then of course we have

our posters outside which I hope all of
you are going to visit during the break.

So.

Is I imagine them the director for
the center of our health and

humanitarian systems the center
has been around for about 11 years

and we do a lot of work both
in the health systems area and

also humanitarian systems our
activities focus on education

outreach and collaborative projects and
research with our partners some of our

partners are here in Georgia others
are in other parts of the country and

then we also have partners in
other parts of the world so

it's been a fantastic journey being
part of the center from its early days

upon till today and I also want to
acknowledge a lot of people on campus and

outside our friends who made this possible
by working with us over the years and

some of them were in this room so please
visit our center to find out the site

to find out more about our activities so
I also would like to acknowledge our

organizers who have worked tirelessly
to put together the program for

this year so I'm going to go and if they
are here if they could please stand and

be recognized bet my net I
guess she's not here today with

us Mike Best It's my.

So the taxi I know she is out
of town she is right here Thank

you Sherry and Bill targe right here so
let you know that I began.

And as you all know if you've been
involved in the organization of such a new

rant it takes a village to put
it together so many many people

across campus worked tirelessly to
put together all the logistics and

other details of this of this event so
let's give them a B. count as well.

And of course I would like to
thank our speakers fire speakers

moderator panelists and
all of you our participants for

being with us today thank you so
health systems we are going

to talk about the next generations title
it would be fun to look back and see

how things were some years ago and
it was a bit scary for

me to look at some of these pictures so
I'm glad that we made some progress

in terms of how do you practice health
care and health systems today and

the kinds of technologies that we use so
this is kind of our Thankfully

you are here today and
you know 100 years before moment.

But this by all our progress is held to
still remains to be one of the biggest

challenges that we face both in
the United States and around the world so

it's if you look at the United Nations the
millennium development goals you'll see

that several of them are directly related
to health and then there are a couple of

them that indirectly relate to how to for
example if you look at the.

Extreme poverty and hunger we know that
there is a relationship between health and

wellbeing and the economic development
in a particularly In warrant

education they don't much think to health
so we see a lot of linkages either

directly or indirectly to health so
distilled remains a big challenge for

us both in the United States and
and worldwide.

Mine is solve some problems at
least in the individual level so

describe just shows us the disparities
in terms of health and

wellbeing and
how it relates to the income of people and

as you might expect as income goes up so
does the health condition which

is a sad reality for us that we still have
these disparities in this day and age and

there are pretty severe but
money doesn't solve all problems

especially if you look at the mission
level respond a lot of money

on health care yet
really look at the art comes and

it doesn't show up in the outcomes so
we are still behind.

Compared to other nations in terms of the
held outcomes in this country even though

we are spending a lot more than some
of the other developed nations so

that's another that again remains
another big challenge for

us in the health system space.

So this is just the picture that shows
some of the complexities in health systems

we have a lot of pregnant a sham.

Issues in prevention preventive services
actually keeping people healthy.

Versus dealing with
the complications after they.

Emerge and we also have issues once
treatment is completed following up and

making sure that we maintain health and
that being so all of these to remain

as significant issue still in this country
despite all the progress progress that we

have made so
part of the reason is that it's complex so

if you might look at the sand say
well this looks very complicated but

it is many of you in the room know health
systems are a lot more complex than these

these ruby Goldberg kind
of systems that we see.

We have multiple
stakeholders who play a role

their incentives are sometimes not aligned
they have their own objectives and

they are not always on the same page
in terms of their object those behave

different physical spaces
health care is delivered or

preventive services take place
including our schools workplaces our

communities so it's really not
just limited to clinics and

hospital it expands beyond
those are those physical spaces

we sometimes have limitations on
information in terms of what people here

what we can communicate to them how much
of the information they retain So there's

all the complicated things and then of
course we always have some sort of answer

to that either at the individual level or
at the Kwame a level or a system level so

when we think about this entire
system we see the complexity and

it's not just the physical well being but
we also have the mental health and

wellbeing and those are obviously very
much linked to each other and impact each

other both ways so that further adds
to the complexity that we have.

So there are many many government
organizations you can pull out chords from

a lot of different places in terms of
some of these challenges complexity.

And highlighting the need for
joining our forces from different units

different organizations rather than
working in silos to make a difference so

I just pulled one chord here
this is from a C.D.C. report but

you can easily find other chords pointing
out the same the same observations.

So what we are going to
do today is to discuss

some topics that relate to
transforming health systems

particularly we want to think
about ways you can change

health systems from secure to health care
so even though you call it health care.

You know a lot of part activities in
health system space focus on secure

somebody gets sick and then they seek
treatment we treat them and and so on and

so forth so there is of course effort
spent on the other side as well on

prevention but
can we actually grow that more so

that we can do more health care and
less secure moving forward so

that's going to be some of our focus
areas today so we hope that the event

facilitates dialogue across organizations
sectors because we have a lot

of different organizations represented
here a lot of sectors are presented here

from public health to hospitals and
clinics to education and

so on so hopefully there's going to be
some cross-pollination of ideas and

maybe some new collaborations so
we hope to identify some emerging

topics as well as ongoing talent
has which might motivate new

research here at Georgia Tech we are on
Georgia Tech campus but we also several of

our friends from other universities in
Atlanta joining us today so we hope that

some new research ideas and collaborations
might start thanks to this event.

And there we also would like to get
ideas about how we can improve our

education of tomorrow's leaders and
the next generation and health

systems we also have several students in
the audience who are joining us today and

hopefully what they hear is going to
be inspiring the inspirational to them

both in terms of their education
as well as their future careers so

one nice thing about Georgia Tech
is that our students get a little

hands on experiences while they
are here through projects co-ops

internships as well as some of the other
things that they do in our classes so

they have a little opportunity for
learning and

implementing what they learn in different
areas health systems being one of them so

hopeful that this event will also serve
as an inspiration for education as well.

So one area that the Center for
Health and humidity and

systems emphasizes is systems
is the name implies and

systems engineering in
particularly the principles

from systems engineering as well as
the overall concept of systems thinking

has been sucked his will be implemented
in a variety of industries over the years

many factoring airlines finance and
so on and so forth and we have

seen an increasing use of Health Systems
Engineering in health systems as well.

So we are very very happy that
the collaborations are increasing but

there is definitely more room
to grow there and potential for

bigger impact of systems engineering in
in the health care area so this really.

Could expand from individual applications
implementations as well as education and

training again the idea is to not look at
the individual pieces of the system and

only focus on those but
really expand our R.T.

thinking to the to the system as a whole
so that we can actually see if you take

a particularly action here what's the
impact not only in this limited area but

more broadly within the system across
the different different units.

So going back to our to our complex.

Health Systems picture hope this is thems
engineering can actually make a difference

and it utilizes a lot
of different tools and

methodology that I'm
sure you all have heard.

In in your in your brokerage occasion so
for example we use

predictive analytics descriptive and other
ticks that look said historically how

have you done in the system what are some
of the transfer basically understanding

how we came to where we are and
what our current status is so quantify and

understanding rugby are we use predictive
analytics by utilizing machine learning or

other kinds of techniques to see
where things might be going from here

particularly if you take certain actions
we want to understand what the future

might look like and
then we also use prescriptive

analytics which utilizers tools
such as optimisation simulation and

others busily trying to find
out the best combination

of actions the best the location
of limited resources so

that we can achieve
certain goals considering.

Constraints or other priorities
within our system so those

are some of the things that are utilized
within the systems engineering framework.

So because I'm a professor I like to give
homework so here's your homework for

today so is the sit in the room and
listen to these various presentations and

discussions and also as you engage with
our posts or presenters during the break

please think about what kind of
knowledge you can take for yourself.

For your colleagues your organization and
also for the constitutions that

your organization serves so
please keep thinking about this and

take some notes think about what
action you can take as an individual.

Or in your professional role and
what action can you actually motivate

others to take so you can be a change
agent you all can make a difference so

please think about these and yet share
your thoughts with your with your network

and your colleagues hope of it leads
to some to some positive change so.

I would like to also acknowledge the are
France organizations who contributed

to this demand by sponsoring the School
of Industrial and systems engineering and

the Institute for people on technology
have been the core sponsors for

this around so we are grateful to them for
their ongoing support and

again I invite all of you to visit our
centers website and please contact me or

in your bar colleagues understand 3rd if
you leave it at the South or if you have.

Any ideas questions and so on.