The Healthcare Systems Engineering M.S. at LMU was one of the first of its kind in the nation. The program is designed to aid highly fragmented, dynamically evolving and highly complex multidisciplinary health care systems. It is mostly a non-mathematical body of knowledge, although some courses use statistics, modeling and simulations, and informatics.<br>For the past decade, the U.S. Council of Advisors on Science and Technology have placed an emphasis on the importance of using systems engineering to solve complex challenges in health care, stating: implementation bears the potential not only to improve the efficience of care delivery, but also improve its quality.<br><br>HSE provides systems-based solutions and helps manage projects that address industry problems in a broad range of areas:<br><br>All clinical areas from virtual care to hospitals to pharmacies to labs to administration<br>Integration of health care elements into patient-focused systems<br>Collaboration between providers, patients, staff, IT, medical devices, processes, and payers<br>Optimization of population health, telemedicine, and home care<br>Electronic records and health care enterprise informatics<br>Simulations and modeling of operations and economic analysis<br>Optimization of medical transportation systems<br>Equity and diversity in health care<br>Big data analytics