From Concept To Scale

Getting broad adoption of new models of service has historically been a challenge in health and human services. There has been a much discussed (but never changed) 17-year “science to service” lag in health care—meaning that, on average, it takes almost two decades for innovations in health care to become mainstream best practices (see The Answer Is 17 Years, What Is The Question: Understanding Time Lags In Translational Research). 

A key issue is assuring that, with growth and scale, the model maintains its integrity and performance. To do that, there are four key steps to replicating an evidence . . .