With the aim to quell the divide between stability and innovation in healthcare, UPMC CIO Rasu Shrestha offers three steps providers can take to embrace change.Its the irony of healthcare.Although we know change is the only constant, the healthcare industry is stubbornly resistant to change and inherently programmed to go with the tried and tested method or device.But healthcare is constantly faced with challenges that demand change, whether its evolving regulatory dynamics, newer clinical developments, technological advancements, competitive forces or changing market demands. Indeed, there is no room for complacency in todays healthcare environment.Yet, we as an industry find not just a level of solace in the status quo, but an ethereal need to ground ourselves in stability. Clinicians are taught to use evidence-based guidelines and do more of whats worked in the past and for good reason. In clinical care, these practices usually save lives.

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