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The healthcare profession as a whole is undergoing rapid changes with technology, politics, economics, and demographics all either forcing or enabling these changes. Change is a constant reality in both our personal and private lives. Our children grow up today taking for granted such things as powerful personal computers that we could not even envision at their ages. Our societies, our professions, and our daily work lives are changing. Moreover, this pace of change appears to be accelerating, not slowing down.
It’s exciting to think about a new vision particularly when you’re the creator/driver of it. You see the need clearly. You feel the urgency in your stomach. You’re motivated to change. You see the fire with your own eyes. You smell the smoke in your own nostrils. The tent is on fire. You have to change. Why are others in the organization so lackadaisical? Don’t they smell the smoke? Don’t they see the fire? Don’t they feel the urgency to change?
(Belasco, 1990)
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Lorenzi, N.M., Riley, R.T. (1995). Health Informatics and Organizational Change. In: Ball, M.J., Simborg, D.W., Albright, J.W., Douglas, J.V. (eds) Healthcare Information Management Systems. Computers in Health Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2402-8_15
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