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Building a better delivery system : a new engineering/health care partnership

Title
Building a better delivery system : a new engineering/health care partnership / Proctor P. Reid, W. Dale Compton, Jerome H. Grossman, and Gary Fanjiang, editors.
Publication
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2005.

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  • Reid, Proctor P.
  • Compton, W. Dale.
  • Grossman, Jerome H.
  • Fanjiang, Gary.
  • National Academy of Engineering.
  • Institute of Medicine (U.S.)
  • National Academies Press (U.S.)
Description
xiii, 262 p. : ill.; 28 cm.
Subject
  • Medical care > United States
  • Hospitals > United States > Administration
Note
  • Cover title.
  • "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-42139"--P. [2] of cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Also available via the World Wide Web.
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  • System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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.
Call Number
JSF 06-378
ISBN
030909643X
LCCN
2006272943
OCLC
61165595
Title
Building a better delivery system : a new engineering/health care partnership / Proctor P. Reid, W. Dale Compton, Jerome H. Grossman, and Gary Fanjiang, editors.
Imprint
Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2005.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Additional Formats
Also available via the World Wide Web.
System Details
System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.
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http://www.nap.edu/books/030909643X/html/
Added Author
Reid, Proctor P.
Compton, W. Dale.
Grossman, Jerome H.
Fanjiang, Gary.
National Academy of Engineering.
Institute of Medicine (U.S.)
National Academies Press (U.S.)
Research Call Number
JSF 06-378
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