Applying Aviation Methods to Healthcare

Significant lessons were learned in aerospace and aviation that have direct applicability in healthcare, especially in Emergency Services. Such areas include: Space Flight Resource Management (SFRM); Cockpit Resource Management (CRM); human factors; trajectory forecasting; flow; avionics; and, cognitive psychology. Health Care Concepts (HCC) and Texas Medical Institute of Technology (TMIT) have significant experience in this domain and have ongoing collaborative relationships in the aviation and aerospace community.

Experts include former astronauts, aeronautical engineers, and scientists from a number of disciplines that participate on advisory teams with our world class team of medical and biomedical engineering experts.

Decision Support in the Danger Zone, a video produced by HCC and TMIT, illustrates innovative decision support tools that may apply to medication management idealized design. Three applicable aviation models are reliability science as it pertains to Naval Aviation, decision support provided by the NASA inspired CTAS system to air traffic controllers, and vector analysis and decision support provided to pilots in the cockpit by an instrument called a flight director. Click to view movie