{"324921":{"#nid":"324921","#data":{"type":"news","title":"New Book Illuminates Ways to Understand and Manage Complexity in Healthcare","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENicoleta Serban\u003C\/strong\u003E, ISyE associate professor at the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, has recently released a new book, Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Healthcare.\u0026nbsp; Written in collaboration with William B. Rouse, Humphreys Chair in Economics of Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology, the book examines how to design a system that can provide high-quality, affordable healthcare for everyone.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUsing an engineering perspective, Rouse and Serban introduce concepts, principles, models, and methods for understanding and improving healthcare delivery. They argue that understanding healthcare delivery as a complex adaptive system will help us to design a system that is more efficient, effective, and equitable.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u201cThis book is full of ideas, concepts, and examples of how systems thinking can be used to improve healthcare delivery and health.\u0026nbsp; It will quickly become a key text in the fields of the science of healthcare delivery and public health.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E\u2013 \u003Cem\u003EDenis A. Cortese, M.D., Foundation Professor, Arizona State University; Emeritus President and CEO, Mayo Clinic\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENicoleta Serban,\u003C\/strong\u003E ISyE associate professor at the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, has recently released a new book, Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Healthcare.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Nicoleta Serban, ISyE associate professor at the Stewart School of Industrial \u0026 Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, has recently released a new book, Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Healthcare."}],"uid":"27868","created_gmt":"2014-09-15 14:47:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:17:04","author":"Lizzie Millman","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2014-09-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-09-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"324931":{"id":"324931","type":"image","title":"Serban\u0027s Book Illuminates Ways to Understand and Manage Complexity in Healthcare","body":null,"created":"1449245041","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:04:01","changed":"1475895037","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:50:37","alt":"Serban\u0027s Book Illuminates Ways to Understand and Manage Complexity in Healthcare","file":{"fid":"201802","name":"nicoleta_bk_2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nicoleta_bk_2.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/nicoleta_bk_2.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":2338066,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/nicoleta_bk_2.jpg?itok=rve5iF23"}}},"media_ids":["324931"],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"15092","name":"big data"},{"id":"602","name":"economics"},{"id":"1129","name":"healthcare"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"3502","name":"nicoleta serban"},{"id":"103221","name":"william rouse"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:barbara.christopher@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}