Building a better delivery system a new engineering/health care partnership / Proctor P. Reid, W. Dale Compton, Jerome H. Grossman, and Gary Fanjiang, editors.
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, |
| Description | xiv, 262 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Reid, Proctor P. |
| Other author/creator | Compton, W. Dale. |
| Other author/creator | Grossman, Jerome H. |
| Other author/creator | Fanjiang, Gary. |
| Other author/creator | National Academy of Engineering. |
| Other author/creator | Institute of Medicine (U.S.) |
| Other author/creator | National 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 note | Cover 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 note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Other forms | Also available via the World Wide Web. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2006272943 |
| ISBN | 030909643X |