Department/School
Center for Health and Medical Affairs; Operations and Supply Chain Management
Date of this version
2017
Document Type
Article
Keywords
Systems dynamics, Health care, Excel modeling
Abstract
Having worked in the healthcare system and taught healthcare MBAs for over a decade, we have observed that healthcare systems and departments operate in independent silos. This paper shows how to use systems dynamics as a method to help students examine the big picture of how components fit together to form a system. We demonstrate the application of this approach and provide an example from one of our healthcare professional graduate student teams.
Published in
INFORMS Transactions on Education
Creative Commons License
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