Building a Better Delivery System:

A New Engineering/Health Care Partnership

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Publication Year:2005

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Proctor P. Reid, W. Dale Compton, Jerome H. Grossman, and Gary Fanjiang, Editors, Committee on Engineering and the Health Care System, Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Engineering
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In a joint effort between the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, this books attempts to bridge the knowledge/awareness divide separating health care professionals from their potential partners in systems engineering and related disciplines. The goal of ...
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Front Matter	i-xiv
Executive Summary	1-8	(skim)
Part I: Consensus Report. 1. A New Partnership Between Systems Engineering and Medicine	9-18	(skim)
2 A Framework for a Systems Approach to Health Care Delivery	19-26	(skim)
3 The Tools of Systems Engineering	27-62	(skim)
4 Information and Communications Systems: The Backbone of the Health Care Delivery System	63-82	(skim)
5 A Strategy to Accelerate Change	83-90	(skim)
Part II: Workshop Presentations--Framing the Health Care Challenge	91-114	(skim)
Equipping the Patient and the Care Team	115-138	(skim)
Engineering Tools and Procedures for Meeting the Challenges	139-188	(skim)
Information Technology for Clinical Applications and Microsystems	189-224	(skim)
Barriers and Incentives to Change	225-240	(skim)
Appendix A: Agenda, NAE Workshop on Engineering and Health Care Delivery System, May 21 22, 2001	241-244	(skim)
Appendix B: Participants, Workshop on Engineering and the Health Care System, May 21 22, 2001	245-248	(skim)
Appendix C: Agenda, NAE Workshop on Engineering and Health Care Delivery System, February 6-7, 2003	249-250	(skim)
Appendix D: Participants, Workshop on Engineering and the Health Care System, February 6-7, 2003	251-252	(skim)
Appendix E: Agenda, NAE Workshop on Engineering and Health Care Delivery System, March 10-11, 2003	253-254	(skim)
Appendix F: Participants, NAE Workshop on Engineering and Health Care Delivery System, March 10-11, 2003	255-258	(skim)
Appendix G: Biographical Information	259-262	(skim)

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In a joint effort between the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine, this books attempts to bridge the knowledge/awareness divide separating health care professionals from their potential partners in systems engineering and related disciplines. The goal of this partnership is to transform the U.S. health care sector from an underperforming conglomerate of independent entities (individual practitioners, small group practices, clinics, hospitals, pharmacies, community health centers et. al.) into a high performance "system" in which every participating unit recognizes its dependence and influence on every other unit. By providing both a framework and action plan for a systems approach to health care delivery based on a partnership between engineers and health care professionals, Building a Better Delivery System describes opportunities and challenges to harness the power of systems-engineering tools, information technologies and complementary knowledge in social sciences, cognitive sciences and business/management to advance the U.S. health care system.

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