Becker's Healthcare January 2, 2025
Laura Dyrda

Health systems implementing new technologies must bridge the gap between the knowledge base and patient care to deliver novel therapies at the bedside and fully transform best practices with those new capabilities.

St. Louis-based Ascension Health is taking the lead in the “implementation science” space to ensure patients receive the best care possible through clinical trials and other scientific efforts.

“Implementation science requires really operationalizing that fund of knowledge, and at Ascension, we’ve done that through developing a system within the cardiovascular service line comprised of process improvement groups, which we call affinity groups, centered on the subspecialty areas of cardiology,” said Edward Fry, MD, Ascension’s national cardiovascular service line director, said during an interview on the “Becker’s Healthcare Podcast”...

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