The real potential exists that treatments currently in the pipeline will make a difference sooner, and we must keep working to secure such advances as soon as possible, but a 2025 objective is needed to focus resources on accountable outcomes.
In this commentary, we outline strategies we have found successful in aligning health education and training with local health needs in ways that demonstrate socially accountable outcomes.
We found that the creation of evaluation tools helped hold projects accountable for outcomes and highlighted to project managers and scientists the characteristics of projects that lead to improved outcomes.
The idea, he said, "is to make you, the therapist, accountable for outcomes".
The whole thrust of public service reform has been about giving more power to people at the frontline and then holding them accountable for outcomes.
While aid organizations must be accountable for outcomes, that pressure for positive results should not be an encouragement to skimp on the truth.
"We are going to change how we deliver care, and we should be held accountable for outcomes — not just measured on the number of procedures performed," Mr. Dowling said.
The unchecked growth of online learning stemmed, in part, from the failure to hold for-profit colleges accountable for outcomes — and an over-reliance on input-based measures of quality.
Unfortunately, the two most popular ideas — requiring companies to disclose the source code to their algorithms and explain how they make decisions — would cause more harm than good by regulating the business models and the inner workings of the algorithms of companies using AI, rather than holding these companies accountable for outcomes.
Second, holding operators accountable for outcomes rather than the inner workings of algorithms would free them to focus on the best methods to ensure their algorithms do not cause harm, such as confidence measures, impact assessments or procedural regularity, where appropriate.
