/ Proctor P. Reid, W. Dale Compton, Jerome H. Grossman, and Gary Fanjiang, editors
Washington, D.C.
: National Academies Press,
, 2005.
xiv, 262 p. ill. 28 cm.
"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.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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Medical care United States
Hospitals United States- Administration
Delivery of Health Care- organization & administration United States
Health Plan Implementation- organization & administration United States