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Things I’m Thinking About In Healthcare Part 2
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Many doctors focus almost exclusively on processing information: they absorb medical data, analyze it, and produce a diagnosis.
Healthcare is orders of magnitude more complex than most other industries. This complexity has generated extensive clinical specialization. In some cases this specialization calls for extensive changes to the “normal” health IT workflow. It also means that each medical specialization has its own diagnostic categories, terminology, and procedures.
Value-based approaches, by contrast, led to a system with a highly trained “spider-sense.”