A Systems Engineering Approach to Better, Less Expensive Health Care (Health Care Issues, Costs and Access)

By: Peaterson, Adeline

This book identifies a comprehensive set of actions for enhancing health care across the Nation through greater use of systems-engineering principles. Systems engineering, widely used in manufacturing and aviation, is an interdisciplinary approach to analyze, design, manage, and measure a complex system in order to improve its efficiency, reliability, productivity, quality, and safety. It has often produced dramatically positive results in the small number of health-care organizations that have incorporated it into their processes. The book proposes a strategy that involves reforming payment systems; building the Nation's health-data infrastructure; providing technical assistance to providers; increasing community collaboration; sharing best practices; and training health professionals in systems engineering approaches.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 163321964X
• ISBN13: 9781633219649
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.3" x 6.0"