healthcare.digital February 23, 2025
Exec Summary
Implementation Science is a field of study focused on understanding and improving how evidence-based practices, interventions, or innovations are adopted, integrated, and sustained in real-world setting, like healthcare systems, schools, or communities. It’s less about what works (that’s usually already established through research) and more about how to make it work effectively in practice.
Think of it as the bridge between knowing something is effective, like a new medical treatment or teaching method and actually getting it used consistently and correctly by the people who need it. It digs into questions like: What barriers stop adoption? How do you adapt something to fit local needs without losing its impact? What strategies (training, policy changes, incentives) help people stick...