Accelerating improvement through systems engineering

"Systems engineering has often produced dramatically positive results in the small number of health-care organizations that have implemented such concepts. These efforts have transformed health care at a small scale, such as improving the efficiency of a hospital pharmacy, and at much larger scales, such as coordinating operations across an entire hospital system or across a community."

Better health care and lower costs: accelerating improvement through systems engineering
President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology

May 2014

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