Engineering the Delivery of Health Care: Priorities for Application and Research

虽然在发展医疗技术方面取得了奇迹，但医疗保健的输送系统-将技术安全有效地应用于病人护理的工具和制度-受到的关注要少得多，特别是工程研究人员。 该项目将资助美国国家工程院（NAE）和医学研究所（IOM）的一项研究，通过确定工程师为医疗保健服务做出重要贡献的机会，开始弥补这一不足。 由NSF、美国国立卫生研究院和罗伯特·伍德约翰逊基金会共同资助，为期14个月，NAE和IOM将召集一个由杰出成员组成的委员会，领导一项主要由NAE工作人员完成的调查。 两个主要的研讨会将是这项工作的一部分，一个是强调已经取得的成功，另一个是为未来的研究制定议程。 委员会的建议将被收集在一份总结报告中，该报告可能会为工程师提供令人兴奋的机会，为国家的一个关键问题做出贡献。

Although wonders have been done in developing medical technology, delivery systems for health care - the instrumentalities and regimes for safe and effective application of the technology to patient care -- have received much less attention, especially from engineering researchers. This project will fund a National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and Institute of Medicine (IOM) study to begin remedying this shortfall by identifying opportunities for engineers to make critical contributions to health care delivery. Jointly funded by NSF, the National Institutes of Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation over a period of 14 months, NAE and IOM will convene a committee of distinguished members to lead an investigation accomplished mostly by NAE staff. Two major workshops will be part of the effort, one to highlight successes already underway and another to set an agenda for future research. Recommendations of the committee would be collected in a summary report that may show the way to exciting opportunities for engineers to contribute to a critical national problem.