The Clinical Informatics Revolution

David Anthony Rew

FOREWORD TO ‘THE CLINICAL INFORMATICS REVOLUTION’
Healthcare is on the brink - overwhelmed in the developed world by the burden of chronic disease, unsustainable cost, and the demand for less intrusive healthcare; and in the less developed world, by limitations in access to and availability of frugal models of care delivery. Healthcare systems are also on the brink of a technology influx that will revolutionise the unsustainable legacy delivery models that have served us well in a bygone era. The healthcare community joins as a laggard the list of well-evolved aspects of life that have been so dramatically transformed by mobile technologies. Clinical informatics is not really about the technologies themselves, however, but rather their role as tools for both empowering self-care and for generating incredibly valuable data on population health and wellness that will transform evidence-based medical practice.

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