“Uniting engineering students and healthcare experts to improve patient outcomes.”

The Patient Safety Collaboration (informally known as the Hospital Project) is a unique initiative where graduate students from the Master of Science in Engineering Management and the Master of Science in Global Innovation and Leadership through Engineering programs collaborate with healthcare and clinical professionals to improve patient outcomes at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

The Hospital Project begins during graduate student orientation. All incoming students participate in this project as a part of the course Strategies for Innovation and Growth during their first fall semester.  

These collaborations have helped advance initiatives in:

  • Process Improvement & Workflow Optimization
  • Operations & Capacity Management
  • Patient Safety & Quality Enhancement
  • Supply Chain & Inventory Management
  • Communication & Coordination Analysis
  • Cost–Benefit and Data-Driven Decision Support
  • SOP Standardization and Implementation

Project Details

  • 7-week consulting project 
  • 4-5 graduate students per group  
  • Detailed final report with actionable recommendations 
  • Previous projects have addressed challenges related to:  
    • Process Improvement  
    • Standard Operating Procedure Optimization  
    • Cost vs. Benefit Analysis 
    • And many more… 

Since 2016...

  • 114projects successfully completed

  • 69JHH project partners

  • 450graduate students participated

Johns Hopkins master's students develop ideas to improve hospital safety - Since its inception in 2015, the interdisciplinary project through the Institute for Clinical and Translational Research has prompted meaningful changes in hospital protocol. Read more at JHU’s the Hub.

Engineering Collaborative for Patient Safety - Learn more about the Engineering Collaborative for Patient Safety, formerly facilitated by the Johns Hopkins Institute for Clinical and Translational Research.

If you have an idea, project, or challenge that you think could benefit from collaborating with a team of Master of Science in Engineering Management students, or any other inquiries, please email us at cle@jhu.edu.

All projects for the fall semester are vetted and selected by our team during the summer of each academic year. Please reach out if you are interested in collaborating with engineering student teams to bring an external perspective to your challenges. Both short and long-term projects are welcome.

“The ‘Eureka’ aspect of the program is bringing a new set of eyes to issues that we have been dealing with in the medical community for years. ”

Lynette Mark, MD Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

“I was amazed by the quality of thinking, depth of questions and professional reports that the students generated. ”

Stephen Jurashek, MD Adjunct Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine