Engineering a Learning Healthcare System: A Look at the Future: Workshop Summary

Institute of Medicine

ISBN 10: 0309120640 / ISBN 13: 9780309120647

Published by National Academies Press, 2011

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• Title: Engineering a Learning Healthcare System: A Look at the Future: Workshop Summary
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309120640
• ISBN 13: 9780309120647
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Improving our nation's healthcare system is a challenge which, because of its scale and complexity, requires a creative approach and input from many different fields of expertise. Lessons from engineering have the potential to improve both the efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery. The fundamental notion of a high-performing healthcare system—one that increasingly is more effective, more efficient, safer, and higher quality—is rooted in continuous improvement principles that medicine shares with engineering. As part of its Learning Health System series of workshops, the Institute of Medicine's Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Health Care and the National Academy of Engineering, hosted a workshop on lessons from systems and operations engineering that could be applied to health care.

Building on previous work done in this area the workshop convened leading engineering practitioners, health professionals, and scholars to explore how the field might learn from and apply systems engineering principles in the design of a learning healthcare system. Engineering a Learning Healthcare System: A Look at the Future: Workshop Summary focuses on current major healthcare system challenges and what the field of engineering has to offer in the redesign of the system toward a learning healthcare system.