Shikha Jain, Founder, Chair of the Board (Former CEO) at Women in Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine at The University of Illinois Cancer Center, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“No health system would run an ICU on good intentions.
There are workflows, staffing models, escalation protocols, clear lines of accountability. The infrastructure exists because the stakes demand it.
And yet prevention – the work that determines whether patients ever need that ICU – is routinely treated as though belief is enough.
It isn’t.
Prevention fails in most health systems not because leaders don’t value it, but because values don’t create outcomes. Design does.
Ask the real questions: Who owns prevention in your organization? Who is accountable when a patient falls through the cracks between screening and follow-up? Where does that work live, and who has time to do it? How is it funded?
If you can’t answer those, you don’t have a prevention strategy. You have an aspiration.
More on this tomorrow in Designing Modern Healthcare.”
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