Moving Complex Systems Toward a Goal

I recently told several of my Mayo colleagues that I ' m an outsider who has landed in a new environment where the degree of collaboration, dialog, and friendly debate is amazing.   The following a kind of guest blog, started byDr. Michael Joyner, who is also a writer He wrote to a number of us"Great paper written by chairman of bank of England in middle of financial crisis.  Pertinent to anyone interested in nudging complex systems towards a goal. "  Below are the responses:Let ’s move away from risk prediction a bit and apply these concepts to our world.  The world of innovating and translating new solutions (hugely complex and risky) in the medical care industry (more complex and regulated than even the financial industry) to treat human disease (much of it psychological/societal/evolutionary) is off the charts with risk.I love the statement of fighting complexity with simplicity – it intrinsically feels correct - so what should our heuristics be for advancing medical care?Modern medical innovation is complex, perhaps too complex. Regulation of modern translation of medical innovation to products is complex, almost certainly too complex. That configuration spells trouble. As you do not fight fire with fire, you do not fight complexitywith complexity. Because complexity generates uncertainty, not risk, it requires a regulatory response plan to enable innovation and translation grounded in simplicity, not complexity. So what i...
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