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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782039803321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, 2005

ISBN

0-309-13358-0

1-280-74218-6

9786610742189

0-309-65406-8

Descrizione fisica

xiv, 262 p. : ill

Altri autori (Persone)

ComptonW. Dale

FanjiangGary

GrossmanJerome H

ReidProctor P

Disciplina

362.10973

Soggetti

Hospitals - United States - Administration

Medical care - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.