ICT&health October 19, 2020
Evidence-based healthcare has profoundly transformed the way the medical community delivers care to populations. Despite the tremendous progress, there are still some common and serious problems that plague health and care systems globally: unwarranted variation in outcomes, failure to prevent preventable diseases, rising need and demand, inequalities, and inequities in health and care provision.
Physicians working at the coal face of medicine are painfully aware of these problems. Still, they often realize that the traditional physician-scientist role does not afford the means to address them. Instead, physicians often find themselves overloaded by mundane and time-consuming bureaucratic tasks. Despite all the remarkable scientific advances, expectations for discovering meaning in the medical profession and careers seem mostly unfulfilled.
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