Workshop:Energy/Materials Dimensions of Engineering in Evidence-Based Healthcare

保健设施提供服务，以实现高质量的医疗结果。这些活动结合起来利用能源和材料，对经济、社会效应和环境产生重大影响。这些影响与服务质量/医疗结果之间的关系是一项重要的研究需求。本次研讨会的研究重点是将能源和材料与个人保健服务相关联的原则作为与实际服务决策者（例如操作成像服务、选择透析程序等的决策者）的关键联系。重点不是作为经济学家，而是更关注能源（和能源效应）、材料生命周期（包括废物流）和医疗结果。目标是更好地理解这些关系（不仅仅是成本），作为一个更基本的结构来寻求可持续性的改进。研讨会有一个广泛和探索性的议程，以鼓励跨学科的接触。其目标是为工程设计或技术（如成像、透析、供应链、建筑环境）提供有关能量和质量流的早期信息，因为这些信息会影响医疗服务和最终的医疗结果。讲习班与类似循证医学发展的交流将为讲习班增添重要的内容。一般形式将包括30分钟的论文和围绕四个总体医疗保健主题的广泛讨论：医疗保健和环境，医疗保健和比较有效性研究，改善结果的技术，以及改善结果的过程和系统设计。一个确定的小型工作组将综合研讨会讨论并制定能源/质量流信息发展路线图。为期两天的研讨会由Janet Twomey教授（janet.twomey@wichita.edu）和Michael Overcash教授（mrovercash@earthlink.net）组织。

Healthcare facilities provide services to achieve quality medical outcomes. These activities combine to utilize energy and materials with a significant impact on economics, social effects, and the environment. The relationship of these impacts to quality of service/medical outcomes is a substantial research need. The research featured in this workshop addresses the principles of relating energy and materials to individual healthcare services as a critical link to the actual services decision-makers (e.g. those operating the imaging services, selecting dialysis procedures, etc). The emphasis is not as economists, but a larger focus on energy (and energy effects), materials life cycles including waste streams, and medical outcomes. The goal is to better understand these relations (not just costs) as a more fundamental structure to seek sustainability improvements. The workshop has a broad and exploratory agenda to encourage cross-discipline exposure. The goal is early information regarding the energy and mass flow for engineering design or technologies (e.g. imaging, dialysis, supply chain, the built environment) as these impact on healthcare services and ultimately medical outcomes. The workshop exchange with similar evidence-based medical developments will add a vital dimension to the workshop. The general format will involve 30 minute papers and extensive discussion around four over-arching healthcare themes: healthcare and the environment, healthcare and comparative effectiveness research, technology for improved outcomes, and processes and systems design for improved outcomes. A small identified working group will synthesize workshop discussion and develop a roadmap for the development of energy/mass flow information. The two day workshop is organized by Professors Janet Twomey (janet.twomey@wichita.edu) and Michael Overcash (mrovercash@earthlink.net).