Workshop: Healthcare Engineering and Health Services Research: Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers; Raleigh, North Carolina; April 6-8, 2008

研讨会：医疗保健工程和健康服务研究：搭建桥梁，打破障碍；

• 批准号: 0817223
• 负责人: Stephen Roberts
• 金额: $ 3.94万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-04-01 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0817223&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Healthcare; Engineering; Health; Services

It is probably no exaggeration to claim that the rapidly escalating costs of health care is one of the most pressing issues facing our nation today - even a cursory look of the media reveals intense public interest and concern. In the United States, rapidly rising healthcare costs threaten manufacturing and service companies with bankruptcy, creating intense pressure to move offshore. Indeed one can make the case that the best way to help prospects for U.S. industries as a whole is to improve healthcare delivery. In recent years, a number of high-profile reports from the National Academies of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine have recommended the development of effective partnerships between the healthcare and engineering communities as a necessary step towards the development of workable solutions to this problem.The objective of this project is to bring together nationally recognized researchers from healthcare engineering and health systems to educate each other as to their work and potential for collaboration, and to discuss actionable mechanisms for collaboration between the two fields to help move their findings into clinical practice and health policy. The workshop will be held in Raleigh, NC on April 7-9, 2008, and will involve faculty, students, researchers and practitioners from health services and healthcare engineering from around the country. The findings will be disseminated in a report aimed at developing an actionable roadmap for collaboration between these two disciplines.

可以毫不夸张地说，迅速上升的医疗保健费用是我们国家今天面临的最紧迫的问题之一--即使是粗略地看一下媒体，也会发现公众的强烈兴趣和关注。在美国，医疗保健成本的迅速上升威胁着制造业和服务业公司的破产，造成了向海外转移的巨大压力。事实上，人们可以证明，帮助美国整个行业前景的最佳方式是改善医疗保健服务。近年来，一些高-美国国家工程院和医学研究所的概况报告建议，在医疗保健和工程界之间建立有效的伙伴关系，作为制定可行的解决方案的必要步骤。该项目的目标是将来自医疗保健工程和卫生系统的国家公认的研究人员聚集在一起，相互教育，他们的工作和合作潜力，并讨论两个领域之间的合作可行机制，以帮助将他们的发现转化为临床实践和卫生政策。该研讨会将于2008年4月7日至9日在北卡罗来纳州的罗利举行，将涉及来自全国各地的卫生服务和医疗保健工程的教师、学生、研究人员和从业人员。调查结果将在一份报告中传播，旨在为这两个学科之间的合作制定一个可行的路线图。