Clinical Care¶
Goals of Health Care¶
- Cure Morbidity (sickness)
- Disability
- Delay Mortality
- Keep people healthy
Tasks of Health Care¶
- Diagnosis
- Prognosis
- Treatment
- Prevent/Public Health
Medical Cycle¶
Enterprise-level clinical process automation¶
How does the Health System Learn¶
Randomized Clinical Trials
Limitations¶
- Heterogeneity: most cases to which RCT results are applied to do not fit trial criteria
- Short follow-up
- Small samples
Paying for Health Care¶
- Companies spend lot on healthcare
- Increased demand
- Waste: Unnecessary procedures