Practicing medicine, whether that's evidence-based medicine, or simply experience-based, expertise-infused requires new methods and we have seen much of this all of this year, and growing at a rapid pace. The current system of scientific publications is currently outdated according to Johns Hopkins and Social, economic and management systems need revision.
This is a message I try to carry to all and have done so for years, we simply are not moving at the same speed we have been accustomed to for the last number of years, there’s a lot of new technology out there almost every day in healthcare, and we have to decide what, where and how to use it, and determine what is beneficial and what is considered intrusive, as yes there is that end of it too, just how much can one digest and use efficiently, a battle we are all faced with today. Cancer treatments and research is moving faster today than it ever has and in many directions as well, thus the need to ramp up on translational medicine. BD
A field of medicine has emerged to improve the speed and fidelity of this learning; it's called translational medicine. It's focused on studying and then quickly taking action on translating what has been a 17 year process of taking medical discoveries and getting them into common practice, much faster. Going from lab bench to bedside. Now, in 2008, we have hundreds of commonly used tests and drugs. We have several orders of magnitude more genomics data coming on-line every year. Operationalizing learning is no longer just a good idea. The practice of medicine, whether that's evidence-based medicine, or simply experience-based, expertise-infused requires new methods.
In concrete terms, if (or when) we're each diagnosed with breast cancer, or prostate cancer, heart disease, diabetes or a common cold, our doctors will be able to quickly and accurately diagnose us and prescribe the most effective treatment. Everyone working here shares an understanding that there's a learning process, involving all prior patients and the healthcare system's experience with diagnosing and treating those prior patients. Patients and families also hope that we (society) will learn from our prior misfortunes, including deaths.
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