Science continues advancing at an exponential rate, with near daily world-changing gains in artificial intelligence, robotics, genetics, medical research, and many other fields.
Pennsylvania is at the forefront of that medical research. This is worth bragging about, but it does have an underappreciated downside – as more knowledge is accumulated in every field, expertise becomes more siloed and meaningful advances are stymied, not by lack of knowledge, but a lack of sufficient coordination.
We must foster greater coordination and communication amongst these fields and specialties. To wit, we will soon introduce a resolution calling for the Joint State Government Commission to conduct a study mapping the barriers preventing greater cross-disciplinary collaboration and detailing how to best make this collaboration happen.
Success will allow massive leaps in efforts to diagnose, prevent and treat diseases, to advance prosthetics and surgical techniques, and very likely many things we can’t even foresee, but which would be monumentally helpful in the future, all while ensuring our Commonwealth remains at the forefront of medicine.
Please join us in sponsoring this important legislation, and may the future of medicine be ever brighter.