Building a Better Delivery System: A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership - Softcover

Institute Of Medicine; National Academy Of Engineering

Softcover

ISBN 10: 030909643X ISBN 13: 9780309096430

Publisher: National Academies Press, 2005

Synopsis

In a joint effort between the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, this books attempts to bridge the knowledge/awareness divide separating health care professionals from their potential partners in systems engineering and related disciplines. The goal of this partnership is to transform the U.S. health care sector from an underperforming conglomerate of independent entities (individual practitioners, small group practices, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, community health centers et. al.) into a high performance "system" in which every participating unit recognizes its dependence and influence on every other unit. By providing both a framework and action plan for a systems approach to health care delivery based on a partnership between engineers and health care professionals, Building a Better Delivery System describes opportunities and challenges to harness the power of systems-engineering tools, information technologies and complementary knowledge in social sciences, cognitive sciences and business/management to advance the U.S. health care system.

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Executive Summary
• Part I: Consensus Report. 1. A New Partnership Between Systems Engineering and Medicine
• 2 A Framework for a Systems Approach to Health Care Delivery
• 3 The Tools of Systems Engineering
• 4 Information and Communications Systems: The Backbone of the Health Care Delivery System
• 5 A Strategy to Accelerate Change
• Part II: Workshop Presentations--Framing the Health Care Challenge
• Equipping the Patient and the Care Team
• Engineering Tools and Procedures for Meeting the Challenges
• Information Technology for Clinical Applications and Microsystems
• Barriers and Incentives to Change
• Appendix A: Agenda, NAE Workshop on Engineering and Health Care Delivery System, May 21-22, 2001
• Appendix B: Participants, Workshop on Engineering and the Health Care System, May 21-22, 2001
• Appendix C: Agenda, NAE Workshop on Engineering and Health Care Delivery System, February 6-7, 2003
• Appendix D: Participants, Workshop on Engineering and the Health Care System, February 6-7, 2003
• Appendix E: Agenda, NAE Workshop on Engineering and Health Care Delivery System, March 10-11, 2003
• Appendix F: Participants, NAE Workshop on Engineering and Health Care Delivery System, March 10-11, 2003
• Appendix G: Biographical Information

About this title

About the Author

Proctor P. Reid, W. Dale Compton, Jerome H. Grossman, and Gary Fanjiang, Editors, Committee on Engineering and the Health Care System, Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Engineering

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 030909643X
• ISBN 13: 9780309096430
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 276
• Editor: Fanjiang Gary, Grossman Jerome H., Compton W. Dale, Reid Proctor P.