Engineering a Learning Healthcare System: A Look at the Future
National Academies Press | June 14, 2011 | ISBN-10: 0309120640 | 340 pages | PDF | 3.19 MB
National Academies Press | June 14, 2011 | ISBN-10: 0309120640 | 340 pages | PDF | 3.19 MB
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 IOM's Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care hosted a workshop, jointly with the National Academy of Engineering, on lessons from systems and operations engineering that could be applied to health care.