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Healthcare Races to Find What Works

By August 5, 2013 No Comments

linkedin.com: What really works in healthcare? What treatments make patients better? These seem like obvious questions. But until recently, doctors and hospitals had little incentive to systematically answer them. Value-based healthcare is changing all that. Today’s caregivers are engaged in an industry-wide push to establish what works and what doesn’t – a task that isn’t as easy as it looks.

Pound for pound, the human body is the most complex object in the universe, subject to wide variations in its reaction to disease and its treatments. We’re challenged to establish protocols that stake out the median of all possible variations.

These protocols are called CarePaths.

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