Dynamics of Emergency Department Crowding Initial Simplest Simulation of the View from the waiting room. Start of a simple introductory series which proceeds to IM-338  A simple CLD is at IM-340

Online Community to grow the use and effectiveness of Health Modelling using multiple methods

Base del modelo territorial de Ciudad Hermosa

Una adaptación del URBAN1 Model from Navid Ghaffarzadegan, John Lyneis and George P Richardson's How small system dynamics models can help the public policy process at System Dynamics Review 27: 22-44 (2011) (click here to view full paper). 

From SDR Jan 2012 article  and 1988 killian award lectures Youtube

WIP based on right care series in Lancet and OECD Tackling wasteful spending on health book 

This is the Concept map at IM-735  modified to reflect the learning after system dynamics modeling at IM-393, 

Rich picture version of causal loop diagram for medication errors, showing the importance of reporting, analyzing and fixing knowledge and process errors. Medication errors will tend to grow due to the use of more medications in more complex patients. This is exacerbated by the loss of staff knowledge by turnover and goal erosion in places with harmful errors.

From Daniel H Kim (1993) Sloan Management Revew article based on Ch2 of his 1993 MIT PhD Thesis A FRAMEWORK AND METHODOLOGY FOR LINKING INDIVIDUAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING:APPLICATIONS IN TQM AND PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

Level of biological organization linking cell level division and population level evolution

A basic conceptual model to evaluate Government regulation of the food industry on community health and health & social costs. Would regulation have a negative impact on the overall budget in the short and longer term?

Improvement Science as one of the clusters of interacting methods for improving health services network design and delivery using complex decision technologies IM-17952

Showing how multiple effect loops for private patients in public hospitals can be represented as a causal loop diagram (CLD)

Services planning for people with intellectual disability concept map. Stock and FLow model is Insight 668 and  RIch Picture is Insight  746

A Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) disease model with waning immunity

An overview of Thomas A Goudge's Book on The Thought of CS Peirce Dover NY 1950 and Thomas Knight's Book Charles Peirce NY 1965. See also causality insight

A simple generic rich picture view of interactions among concerned people with needs services and resources and abilities (including learning), which can be used as a pattern for many individual health care insights.

Causal loop diagram patient centric version of Insight 691, unfolding the complexity of medication management.

From Nancy Leveson Vioxx Recall Study in CH8 Engineering a Safer World and Couturier's MIT ESD Thesis

This linkage map represents the links between crisis resolution faced by healthcare managers. Administrative officer's are responsible for specific communication channels to ensure and maintain control during emergency situations to ensure the safety of patients, medical staff and affected populations.

Rich picture version of Tanner's Clinical Judgment Model, with the addition of clinical reasoning cycle concepts from T Levett-Jones et al Nurse Education Today 30 (2010) 515-520