Engineering a learning healthcare system
Subtitle: a look at the future : workshop summary
By: Claudia Grossman ... [et al.] ; Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies
Contributors: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care; National Academy of Engineering (U.S.)
Series: The learning healthcare system series
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780309120647; 9780309120654
Subjects: Quality Improvement; Health Planning; Utilization; Delivery of Health Care; Standards; Study and teaching; Congresses; Medical care; Integrated delivery of health care; Evidence-Based Medicine
Other titles: Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health-Care; Engineering a learning health care system
Description: "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 healthcare 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."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Also available in Open Book format via the National Academies Press home page.
Table of contents: title: Engineering a learning healthcare system; title: Engaging complex systems through engineering concepts; title: Healthcare system complexities, impediments, and failures; title: Case studies in transformation through systems engineering; title: Fostering systems change to drive continuous learning in health care; title: Next steps : aligning policies with leadership opportunities.