Report Calls for Adoption of Systems-Engineering Tools in U.S. Health Care Industry

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Article Date: 23 Jul 2005 - 0:00 PDT

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"Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century," Institute of Medicine: The U.S. health care industry has failed to adopt systems-engineering tools and new technologies that could significantly improve the safety and quality of medical products and services while also lowering costs, Proctor Reid, W. Dale Compton and colleagues at the Institute of Medicine and National Academy of Engineering write in a new IOM report. Noting that cultural, organizational and policy-related barriers have impeded the health care industry's effort to adopt such tools, the authors call on the private sector and the government to collaborate on efforts to study how systems-engineering tools could improve health care delivery and facilitate the implementation of the tools across the health sector (Institute of Medicine release, 7/20).

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