Front Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Introduction; Chapter 1: Prevention and Personal Accountability; Chapter 2: System Says ... ; Chapter 3: Care Ethics; Chapter 4: From the Exhibit Hall to Your Body; Chapter 5: Trading Hotel Rooms for Sick Beds; Chapter 6: Insured or Imagined?; Chapter 7: The Classroom: Where Medicine Begins; Chapter 8: Health Is the Law; Chapter 9: Still in Development; Chapter 10: Conclusion; Bibliography; Back Cover
Summary
Engineering Solutions to America's Healthcare Challenges covers the technologies, systems, and processes that are emerging in hospitals, clinics, community centers, universities, and the White House to repair healthcare in the United States. Focusing on the importance of individuals being proactive about their own state of health, it presents a systems approach to changing the way healthcare professionals do business and take care of their patients. Written by a leading government and private sector consultant with more than a decade of experience as an industrial e