Research Catalog

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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Additional Authors

• 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 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Subject

• Medical care > United States
• Hospitals > United States > Administration
• Delivery of Health Care > organization & administration
• Health Plan Implementation > organization & administration
• United States

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.

System Details (note)

• System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Contents

Pt. I. Consensus report -- 1. A new partnership between systems engineering and health care -- 2. A framework for a systems approach to health care delivery -- 3. The tools of systems engineering -- 4. Information and communications systems : the backbone of the health care delivery system -- 5. A strategy of accelerate change -- Pt. II. Workshop presentations -- Crossing the quality chasm / Janet Corrigan -- Bridging the quality chasm / David Lawrence -- Envisioning the future / Jeff Goldsmith -- Improving health and health care / Lewis G. Sandy -- Engineering and the health care system / Richard J. Coffey -- Engineering and the health care organization / Vinod K. Sahney -- Evidence-based medicine / Brian Haynes -- The context of care and the patient care team : the safety attitudes questionnaire / J. Bryan Sexton, Eric J. Thomas and Peter Pronovost -- Engineering the patient and family into the patient care team / David Gustafson -- Connecting patients, providers, and payers / John D. Halamka -- New paradigms for working and learning / Richard Bohmer -- Designing caregiver- and patient-centered health care systems / H. Kent Bowen -- Systems engineering : opportunities for health care / Jennifer K. Ryan -- Supply-chain management and health care delivery : pursuing a system-level understanding / Reha Uzsoy -- The human factor in health care systems design / Kim J. Vicente -- Changing health care delivery enterprises / Seth Bonder -- Transforming current hospital design : engineering concepts applied to the patient care team and hospital design / Ann Hendrich -- Discrete-event simulation modeling of the content, processes, and structures of health care / Robert S. Dittus -- Measuring and reporting on health care quality / Dana Gelb Safran -- Archimedes : an analytical tool for improving the quality and efficiency of health care / David M. Eddy and Leonard Schlessinger -- Applying financial engineering to the health services industry / John M. Mulvey -- Engineering tools and methods in the delivery of cancer care services / Molla S. Donaldson -- Patient trajectory risk management / Charles Denham -- Deploying resources for an idealized office practice : access, interactions, reliability, and vitality / Thomas W. Nolan -- Engineering and the system environment / Paul C. Tang -- Challenges in informatics / William W. Stead -- A national standard for medication use / David Classen -- Obstacles to the implementation and acceptance of electronic medical record systems / Paul D. Clayton -- Automation of the clinical practice : cost-effective and efficient health care / Prince K. Zachariah -- The eICU solution : a technology-enabled care paradigm for ICU performance / Michael J. Breslow -- Wireless biomonitoring for health care / Thomas F. Budinger -- Rehabilitation redefined / Mindy L. Aisen -- Evaluating the potential of new technologies / Carolyn M. Clancy -- Political barriers to change / Nancy-Ann DeParle -- Lessons from financial services / Ralph Kimball -- Can purchasers leverage engineering principles to improve health care? / Arnold Milstein -- Shibboleths in modeling public policy / Richard P. O'Neill -- Matching and allocation in medicine and health care / Alvin E. Roth.

ISBN

030909643X

LCCN

2006272943

OCLC

• 63789176
• ocm63789176
• SCSB-5267147

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries