Building a better delivery system a new engineering/health care partnership / Proctor P. Reid, W. Dale Compton, Jerome H. Grossman, and Gary Fanjiang, editors.

Other author/creatorReid, Proctor P.
Other author/creatorCompton, W. Dale.
Other author/creatorGrossman, Jerome H.
Other author/creatorFanjiang, Gary.
Other author/creatorNational Academy of Engineering.
Other author/creatorInstitute of Medicine (U.S.)
Other author/creatorNational Academies Press (U.S.)
Contents Executive summary -- pt. I: Consensus report -- A new partnership between systems engineering and medicine -- A framework for a systems approach to health care delivery -- The tools of systems engineering -- Information and communications systems: the backbone of the health care delivery system -- A strategy to accelerate change -- pt. 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 -- Biographical information -- Appendixes.
General noteCover title.
General note"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-4-2139)"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2006272943
ISBN030909643X