Partners

Partners provide essential "living laboratories" and vital opportunities for RCHE to:

• Understand the real world of healthcare delivery as experienced by patients, healthcare professionals, and care-givers.
• Understand healthcare delivery from a systems-oriented, supply-chain perspective.
• Form teams with healthcare professionals and develop interdisciplinary solutions.
• Demonstrate improvements in the real world of healthcare delivery.
• Share what we learn with other healthcare professionals.

Industry Partners

	A Catholic, mission-focused organization and the nation's largest nonprofit health system with more than 100,000 associates and health facilities in 20 states and the District of Columbia.
	A leading not-for-profit health system with five hospitals and more than 70 sites of care in central Indiana.
	The professional trade association for 167 Hoosier hospitals and health systems.
	Promoting, protecting and providing for the health of Hoosiers in their communities.
	A practice of more than 135 physicians at 17 clinics.
	The provider of medical education in Indiana, with more than 1000 M.D. and Ph.D. students.
	A private foundation that focuses its activities and financial support on the improvement of healthcare through medical research and process improvement.
	A national leader in health services research, located at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.
	The state's largest healthcare employer with more than 3,000 physicians. St. Vincent operates 16 health ministries serving 45 counties in central Indiana.
	The VA Center for Implementing Evidence-Based Practice at the Roudebush Veterans' Administration Medical Center in Indianapolis is designed to enhance the VA's capacity to implement and sustain evidence-based practice.
	The largest health benefits company in terms of commercial membership in the United States.

Academic Collaboration

RCHE is a part of the national Healthcare Engineering Alliance (HEA), which was established to facilitate communications among healthcare engineering research programs, share best practices, and develop programs to bring about transformational improvement in healthcare delivery. Alliance members include:

Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering	Department of Industrial and Management Systems	Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Edward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering	Center for Innovation in Healthcare Logistics

RCHE is affiliated with the Centre for Research in Healthcare Engineering at the University of Toronto through Michael Carter, Ph.D., RCHE Advisory Council member.

Purdue Collaboration

RCHE collaborates with a variety of Purdue campus centers, including:

	Blending life sciences and engineering research to cultivate and support innovative, multi-investigator, interdisciplinary research teams.
	Promoting a culture of entrepreneurship, with activity in both commercialization and education.
	Interdisciplinary program designed to foster research on and education about the aging process.
	One of the world's leading multidisciplinary centers for information security research focused on technical, ethical, legal, educational, communicational, linguistic, and economic issues.
	Redesigning educational practices and creating innovative learning environments in the STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and math).
	Providing proposal support, project support and technical support for emerging centers in Discovery Park.
	Operating as the Discovery Park arm of the NCI-designated Purdue Cancer Center, integrating research in life sciences, liberal arts, engineering and chemical sciences.
	Researching biosecurity, sensor technologies, infrastructure security, economic security, cyber security, power grid security, and food and plant security.
	Developing a visual analytic environment for the communication of information and insight from massive, disparate, incomplete, and time-evolving data sets.