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Hospitals As Learning Systems
Hospitals are custodians of decades of clinical experience. Yet much of this experience remains locked in records, reports, and institutional memory, rarely carried forward to inform future decisions.
The most consequential questions in medicine are not answered at a single moment. They depend on how risk, benefit, and uncertainty evolve.
This includes understanding disease progression and recurrence, timing and sequencing of interventions, cumulative treatment effects, long-term surveillance, and the balance between intervention and overtreatment.
Such questions cannot be resolved through isolated decisions or short-term correlation alone. They require learning across time, populations, and care trajectories. Hospitals are uniquely positioned to enable this learning because they sit at the intersection of long-term patient care, clinical decision-making, and institutional memory.
Global
Opportunity
Many hospitals worldwide hold rich clinical histories, including cancer registries, but lack the resources and structures needed to compare, contextualise, and learn from them at scale.
When connected to clinical context and MDT practice, longitudinal insight can complement institutional learning and support parity in the quality of clinical decision-making, regardless of geography or resources.
"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers"
- Carl Sagan
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