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Title Engineering a learning healthcare system : a look at the future : workshop summary / Claudia Grossmann [and others] ; Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Engineering of the National Academies.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxiii, 313 pages) : illustrations, map.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The learning healthcare system series
Learning healthcare system series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Engineering a learning healthcare system -- Engaging complex systems through engineering concepts -- Healthcare system complexities, impediments, and failures -- Case studies in transformation through systems engineering -- Fostering systems change to drive continuous learning in health care -- Next steps: aligning policies with leadership opportunities.
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. 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 Health 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Integrated delivery of health care -- Study and teaching -- United States -- Congresses.
Integrated delivery of health care.
United States.
Medical care -- Utilization -- Study and teaching.
Medical care -- Utilization.
Delivery of Health Care -- organization & administration.
Health Plan Implementation -- organization & administration.
Delivery of Health Care -- trends.
Systems Analysis.
Biomedical Engineering.
United States.
Genre/Form Congress.
Electronic books.
Subject Medical care.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Grossmann, Claudia, 1978-
Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care.
National Academy of Engineering.
Note At head of title: Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health-Care
Added Title Engineering a learning health care system
Other Form: Print version: Engineering a learning healthcare system. Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, ©2011 9780309120647 (DLC) 2011284664 (OCoLC)745458259
ISBN 9780309120654 (electronic book)
0309120659 (electronic book)
9780309120647 (print)
0309120640 (print)