Engineering a Learning Healthcare System: A Look at the Future: Workshop Summary

by J. Michael McGinnis, W. Alexander Goolsby, Institute of Medicine, et al.

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309120640
• ISBN13: 9780309120647
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.