Download PDF Engineering and the Health Care Delivery System March 1, 2008 Volume 38 Issue 1 Volume 38, Number 1, Spring 2008. There are abundant reasons for the problems in health care delivery. Engineers may not be able to solve all of them, but the benefits of working toward solutions can be tremendous, and the challenges they present are enormously intellectually stimulating. Articles In This Issue Engineering and the Health Care Delivery System (editorial) Saturday, March 1, 2008 AuthorW. Dale Compton, Proctor P. Reid Editor’s Note The suggestion that engineers join in the struggle to improve the health care system almost always elicits surprise, even though engineers have been actively involved in bioengineering and biomaterials engineering for years. In addition, publications on using ... Adapting Process-Improvement Techniques in an Academic Medical Center Saturday, March 1, 2008 AuthorPaul F. Levy Systemic changes require cooperation between those who deliver care and administrators committed to the public disclosure of outcomes. Academic medical centers, the crown jewels of the medical system, have a tripartite mission. First, of course, as hospitals, they are intimately involved in ... Disruptive Innovation in Health Care: Challenges for Engineering Saturday, March 1, 2008 AuthorJerome H. Grossman Innovative, “disruptive” changes in the way health care is organized, paid for, and delivered may lead to a transformation of the overall health care system. Seven years after the publication of two seminal reports by the Institute of Medicine, To Err Is Human (IOM, 2000) and ... Health Care as a Complex Adaptive System: Implications for Design and Management Saturday, March 1, 2008 AuthorWilliam B. Rouse Management of complex adaptive systems requires leadership rather than power, incentives and inhibitions rather than command and control. For several years, the National Academies has been engaged in a systemic study of the quality and cost of health care in the United States (IOM, 2000, 2001; ... The Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business: Creating an Adaptive Health Care System Saturday, March 1, 2008 AuthorChristopher Meyer As biology becomes an information science, health care will learn from nature how to accelerate change. The world of health care lies between the realms of medical science, which continues to deliver new treatments and information at an accelerating rate, and of policy, which is conservative by ... New Therapies: The Integration of Engineering and Biological Systems Saturday, March 1, 2008 AuthorW. Mark Saltzman Engineering innovation will continue to improve the quality of life and increase life expectancy. In the twentieth century, overall life expectancy increased by 30 years (Figure 1), and young people today can expect to live longer, healthier, more active lives than their great-grandparents, ...
Engineering and the Health Care Delivery System (editorial) Saturday, March 1, 2008 AuthorW. Dale Compton, Proctor P. Reid Editor’s Note The suggestion that engineers join in the struggle to improve the health care system almost always elicits surprise, even though engineers have been actively involved in bioengineering and biomaterials engineering for years. In addition, publications on using ...
Adapting Process-Improvement Techniques in an Academic Medical Center Saturday, March 1, 2008 AuthorPaul F. Levy Systemic changes require cooperation between those who deliver care and administrators committed to the public disclosure of outcomes. Academic medical centers, the crown jewels of the medical system, have a tripartite mission. First, of course, as hospitals, they are intimately involved in ...
Disruptive Innovation in Health Care: Challenges for Engineering Saturday, March 1, 2008 AuthorJerome H. Grossman Innovative, “disruptive” changes in the way health care is organized, paid for, and delivered may lead to a transformation of the overall health care system. Seven years after the publication of two seminal reports by the Institute of Medicine, To Err Is Human (IOM, 2000) and ...
Health Care as a Complex Adaptive System: Implications for Design and Management Saturday, March 1, 2008 AuthorWilliam B. Rouse Management of complex adaptive systems requires leadership rather than power, incentives and inhibitions rather than command and control. For several years, the National Academies has been engaged in a systemic study of the quality and cost of health care in the United States (IOM, 2000, 2001; ...
The Convergence of Information, Biology, and Business: Creating an Adaptive Health Care System Saturday, March 1, 2008 AuthorChristopher Meyer As biology becomes an information science, health care will learn from nature how to accelerate change. The world of health care lies between the realms of medical science, which continues to deliver new treatments and information at an accelerating rate, and of policy, which is conservative by ...
New Therapies: The Integration of Engineering and Biological Systems Saturday, March 1, 2008 AuthorW. Mark Saltzman Engineering innovation will continue to improve the quality of life and increase life expectancy. In the twentieth century, overall life expectancy increased by 30 years (Figure 1), and young people today can expect to live longer, healthier, more active lives than their great-grandparents, ...