Building a Better Delivery System

Proctor P. Reid, W. Dale Compton, Jerome H. Grossman, and Gary Fanjiang, Editors, Committee on Engineering and the Health Care System, Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Engineering

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 Part I: Consensus Report. 1. A New Partnership Between Systems Engineering and Medicine; 4 2 A Framework for a Systems Approach to Health Care Delivery; 5 3 The Tools of Systems Engineering; 6 4 Information and Communications Systems: The Backbone of the Health Care Delivery System; 7 5 A Strategy to Accelerate Change; 8 Part II: Workshop Presentations--Framing the Health Care Challenge; 9 Equipping the Patient and the Care Team; 10 Engineering Tools and Procedures for Meeting the Challenges; 11 Information Technology for Clinical Applications and Microsystems; 12 Barriers and Incentives to Change; 13 Appendix A: Agenda, NAE Workshop on Engineering and Health Care Delivery System, May 21-22, 2001; 14 Appendix B: Participants, Workshop on Engineering and the Health Care System, May 21-22, 2001; 15 Appendix C: Agenda, NAE Workshop on Engineering and Health Care Delivery System, February 6-7, 2003; 16 Appendix D: Participants, Workshop on Engineering and the Health Care System, February 6-7, 2003; 17 Appendix E: Agenda, NAE Workshop on Engineering and Health Care Delivery System, March 10-11, 2003; 18 Appendix F: Participants, NAE Workshop on Engineering and Health Care Delivery System, March 10-11, 2003; 19 Appendix G: Biographical Information