TY - JOUR AU - Baker, Alastair AB - reviews BOOKS • CD ROMS • ART • WEBSITES • MEDIA • PERSONAL VIEWS • SOUNDINGS • MINERVA radical change and establish six aims and 10 errors—are out of control. On all counts, the Crossing the Quality simple rules for a completely different system is failing and there is no choice but Chasm: A New Health change. healthcare system. They call for a common This report will influence healthcare System for the 21st Century purpose and as few simple rules as possible, policy makers throughout the world for at based on a complex adaptive system model, Institute of Medicine least the next 10 years. The NHS could be a and they contrast this with the current National Academy Press, more receptive environment for the vision bureaucratic attempts to regulate problems $44.95, pp 364 than the US healthcare system. Even the created by the system itself. ISBN 0 309 07280 8 section on funding applies to the United The report explores the development of See www.nap.edu for ordering Kingdom. Already, government pronounce­ details information technology, arguing that ments on the NHS, on change, and on human brains should be reserved for judg­ Rating: quality, and much of the work of TI - Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century JF - BMJ DO - 10.1136/bmj.323.7322.1192 DA - 2001-11-17 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/british-medical-journal/crossing-the-quality-chasm-a-new-health-system-for-the-21st-century-4F0Aa0DY3Z SP - 1192 VL - 323 IS - 7322 DP - DeepDyve ER -