Engineering a learning healthcare system a look at the future : workshop summary

"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...

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Autor principal: Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (-)
Autores Corporativos: Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies, Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care
Otros Autores: Grossmann, Claudia (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press 2011.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Learning healthcare system series.
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Sumario:"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.
Notas:Description based upon print version of record.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (340 p.)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9780309224772
9781283213332
9786613213334
9780309120654