Health Systems creates new models for healthcare delivery through integrative interdisciplinary solutions, drawing from medicine, engineering, computing, management and public policy. Health Systems also develops and implements novel multidisciplinary and collaborative research, education, and outreach programs to transform healthcare delivery systems and lead the nation away from an ineffective, reactive, disease-focused system to achieve a cost-effective, pro-active health and wellness-focused system. Research objectives include advancing fundamental knowledge of issues central to the delivery of health care services through efficient allocation and management of health resources, and the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of integrated, patient-centered, and personalized health care delivery systems that capitalize on state-of-the-art information, communication, decision support, healthcare and biomedical technologies.