Building a better delivery system
Subtitle: a new engineering/health care partnership
By: Proctor P. Reid, W. Dale Compton, Jerome H. Grossman, and Gary Fanjiang, editors.
Contributors: Reid, Proctor P.; Compton, W. Dale.; Grossman, Jerome H.; Fanjiang, Gary.; National Academy of Engineering.; Institute of Medicine (U.S.); National Academies Press (U.S.)
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration -- United States.; Health Plan Implementation -- organization & administration -- United States.
Notes: Cover title.

"Support for this project was provided by the National Science Foundation (Award No. DMI-222041), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Grant No. 044640), and the National Institutes of Health (Contract No. N01-oD-42139"--P. [2] of cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

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Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: pt. I: Consensus report; title: A new partnership between systems engineering and medicine; title: A framework for a systems approach to health care delivery; title: The tools of systems engineering; title: Information and communications systems: the backbone of the health care delivery system; title: A strategy to accelerate change; title: pt. II: workshop presentations; title: Framing the health care challenge; title: Equipping the patient and the care team; title: Engineering tools and procedures for meeting the challenges; title: Information technology for clinical applications and microsystems; title: Barriers and incentives to change; title: Biographical information; title: Appendixes.