HIMSS November 11, 2020
Health and care have been inexorably moving towards a new paradigm of precision health over the last 20 years—the result of changes in the provision of services, increasing challenges around affordability, as well as societal changes to demography, morbidity and the nature of the interactions between physicians and patients.
In the 1990s, the atmosphere was very different to the one which prevails today. The world of evidence-based care was just about reaching the mainstream in its acceptance and everywhere there were examples of attempts at implementation and deployment of these new pathways within health systems.
Managing Change in Healthcare
Change was also difficult then, and change management was—as it is now—the major challenge. There were fierce and impassionate arguments by...