Overview

Building on Mayo Clinic's more than 100 years of experience in applying scientific and engineering principles to health care delivery, the Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery is transforming the way that patients everywhere receive and experience health care.

The center is highly focused on the "science" aspect of care delivery — not simply on anecdotal evidence. Combining data analysis, health care engineering principles and health care delivery research, the center puts its theories, models and methods through the scientific rigor necessary to determine if they can improve patient care, outcomes and cost.

The center is made up of five major programs: Value Analysis, Health Care Delivery Research, Health Care Systems Engineering, Population Health Science and Surgical Outcomes. Each program plays a role in the center's quest to improve patient care while working to contain costs.

The foundation of the center's work is an unwavering commitment to putting patients' needs first. Every project is inspired by real-world challenges experienced by patients at Mayo Clinic and elsewhere.

As the center identifies innovative ways to improve health care delivery and puts them into practice, patients will benefit from more accessible, affordable care tailored to their particular needs.

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