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

尽管在发展医疗技术方面已经创造了奇迹，但卫生保健的提供系统——安全有效地将技术应用于病人护理的工具和制度——受到的关注要少得多，尤其是来自工程研究人员的关注。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，通过寻找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。由美国国家科学基金会、美国国立卫生研究院和罗伯特伍德约翰逊基金会联合资助，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员工完成的调查。两个主要的研讨会将成为这项工作的一部分，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。委员会的建议将收集在一份总结报告中，该报告可能为工程师提供令人兴奋的机会，为解决一个关键的国家问题做出贡献。

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.