Institutional Fitness to Innovation Complexity

Different healthcare systems have design objectives and efficiency boundaries that vary with the complexity of problems they need to solve. Highly standardized problems (fractures, common medications) suit centralized control; personalized, cutting-edge problems (gene therapy, novel immunotherapies) require decentralized decision-making and diverse investment. When problem complexity exceeds institutional capacity, the system itself becomes the bottleneck.

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