With rapidly rising healthcare costs directly impacting the economy
and quality of life, resolving improvement challenges in areas such
as safety, effectiveness, patient-centeredness, timeliness,
efficiency, and equity has become paramount. Using a system
engineering perspective, Handbook of Healthcare Delivery Systems
offers theoretical foundations, methodologies, and case studies in
each main sector of the system. It explores how system engineering
methodologies and their applications in designing, evaluating, and
optimizing the operations of the healthcare system could improve
patient outcomes and cost effectiveness. The book presents an
overview of current challenges in the healthcare system and the
potential impact of system engineering. It describes an integrated
framework for the delivery system and the tools and methodologies
used for performance assessment and process improvement with
examples of lean concept, evidence-based practice and risk
assessment. The book then reviews system engineering methodologies
and technologies and their applications in healthcare. Moving on to
coverage of the design, planning, control and management of
healthcare systems, the book contains chapters on 12 services
sectors: preventive care, telemedicine, transplant, pharmacy,
ED/ICU, OR, decontamination, laboratory, emergency response, mental
health, food and supplies, and information technology. It presents
the state-of-the-art operations and examines the challenges in each
service unit. While system engineering concepts have been broadly
applied in healthcare systems, most improvements have focused on a
specific segment or unit of the delivery system. Each unit has
strong interactions with others and any significant improvement is
more likely to be sustained over time by integrating the process
and re-evaluating the system design from a holistic viewpoint. By
providing an overview of individual operational sectors in the
extremely complex healthcare system and introducing a wide array of
engineering methods and tools, this handbook establishes the
foundation to facilitate integrated system thinking to redesign the
next generation healthcare system.
General
Imprint: |
Crc Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Industrial and Systems Engineering Series |
Release date: |
December 2010 |
First published: |
2010 |
Editors: |
Yuehwern Yih
|
Dimensions: |
254 x 178 x 37mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
|
Pages: |
812 |
Edition: |
New |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4398-0333-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Medicine >
General issues >
Health systems & services >
General
|
LSN: |
1-4398-0333-1 |
Barcode: |
9781439803332 |
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