MedCity News December 31, 2024
Amid the chaos and confusion of healthcare IT in our age of AI, a triage concept may be the best guide for organizations fighting to stray strong and capable in 2025 and beyond.
The modern concept of “triage” dates to the Napoleonic Wars, when French battlefield surgeons developed a system for assessing the wounded and determining treatment priority to govern appropriate medical action in the chaos and confusion of war. It efficiently leveraged limited resources under challenging circumstances, increased the number of survivors, strengthened the army’s continued fighting capability, and transformed care delivery strategy in ways that still influence the field of medicine today.
Amid the chaos and confusion of healthcare IT in our age of AI, that triage concept...