Evidence-based support for healthcare commissioning
Evidology
Ev·i·do·l·o·gy n.
A new medical specialty that enables medical research to be incorporated systematically into clinical practice [Latin videre to discern, comprehend; evideri to appear plainly]
Every now and again a new medical specialty emerges. In the early 1900s it was radiology. Today it is evidology. Radiology emerged as a separate, specialist discipline because clinicians did not have the time, tools or training to take and accurately interpret their own x-rays. Today it is clear that “getting evidence-based” is not something clinicians, patients, insurers and policy makers can do on top of their regular jobs. They, too, do not have the time, tools or training to do so. Producing high quality evidence-based analyses requires specific skills, resources and a dedicated focus. This is why Bazian believes the practice of evidence-based medicine is actually a new and emerging specialty called “evidology”. In the near future insurers, policy makers, clinicians and even individual patients will routinely work with evidologists to determine the scientific bottom line relating to their questions, issues and decisions. Bazian is working towards that day.