We ask questions like:Who are the main stakeholders of this problem?Who has the interest, the resources, and the power to affect change?What are key variables that affect the outcome and processes of this system?How do these variables affect each other?The answers to those questions become our qualitative data.
Assistant Professor Niyousha Hosseinichimeh, has partnered with physician researchers at Children’s National Hospital to introduce screenings where there aren’t currently resources for adult populations in need: the pediatric emergency department and the neonatal intensive care unit.
use group model building techniques to elicit information and knowledge from experts and then build simulation models. After building confidence in the simulation model, we test interventions in a virtual environment before implementing them in a clinical setting. When we test interventions in a virtual environment, we can identify potential barriers, problems, and unintended consequences. Once we implement the selected solutions, we measure how they’re working and use that data to adjust the model.......take the de-identified quantitative data from the health care providers - like the number of people who were approached for a mental health screening, the number of people who were actually screened, which percentage had positive screens, and so on - to calibrate the model.After building confidence in the model through various tests, the model is transferred to a website so health care providers can simulate the model without needing our software. We will run what-if analyses, which help the health care providers and managers to make decisions
