Disruptive Innovation Can Prevent the Next Pandemic
Public health surveillance (PHS) is at a tipping point, where the application of novel processes, technologies, and tools promise to vastly improve efficiency and effectiveness. Yet 20th-century, entrenched ideology and lack of training results in slow uptake and resistance to change. The term disru...
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| author | Affan eShaikh Lisa eFerland Robert eHood-Cree Loren eShaffer Scott eMcNabb Scott eMcNabb |
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| description | Public health surveillance (PHS) is at a tipping point, where the application of novel processes, technologies, and tools promise to vastly improve efficiency and effectiveness. Yet 20th-century, entrenched ideology and lack of training results in slow uptake and resistance to change. The term disruptive innovation – used to describe advances in technology and processes that change existing markets, is useful to describe the transformation of PHS. Past disruptive innovations used in PHS, such as distance learning, the smart phone, and field-based laboratory testing have outpaced older services, practices, and technologies used in the traditional classroom, governmental offices, and personal communication, respectively. Arguably, the greatest of these is the Internet – an infrastructural innovation that continues to enable exponential benefits in seemingly limitless ways. Considering the Global Health Security Agenda and facing emerging and reemerging infectious disease threats, evolving environmental and behavioral risks, and ever changing epidemiologic trends, PHS must transform. Embracing disruptive innovation in the structures and processes of PHS can be unpredictable. However it is necessary to strengthen and unlock the potential to prevent, detect, and respond. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-de516d2677a546ddb72b2ab28ff966f22022-12-22T03:30:38ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Public Health2296-25652015-09-01310.3389/fpubh.2015.00215156814Disruptive Innovation Can Prevent the Next PandemicAffan eShaikh0Lisa eFerland1Robert eHood-Cree2Loren eShaffer3Scott eMcNabb4Scott eMcNabb5Public Health Practice, LLCPublic Health Practice, LLCNorthrop Grumman CorporationNorthrop Grumman CorporationPublic Health Practice, LLCEmory UniversityPublic health surveillance (PHS) is at a tipping point, where the application of novel processes, technologies, and tools promise to vastly improve efficiency and effectiveness. Yet 20th-century, entrenched ideology and lack of training results in slow uptake and resistance to change. The term disruptive innovation – used to describe advances in technology and processes that change existing markets, is useful to describe the transformation of PHS. Past disruptive innovations used in PHS, such as distance learning, the smart phone, and field-based laboratory testing have outpaced older services, practices, and technologies used in the traditional classroom, governmental offices, and personal communication, respectively. Arguably, the greatest of these is the Internet – an infrastructural innovation that continues to enable exponential benefits in seemingly limitless ways. Considering the Global Health Security Agenda and facing emerging and reemerging infectious disease threats, evolving environmental and behavioral risks, and ever changing epidemiologic trends, PHS must transform. Embracing disruptive innovation in the structures and processes of PHS can be unpredictable. However it is necessary to strengthen and unlock the potential to prevent, detect, and respond.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpubh.2015.00215/fullPublic Health InformaticsOne HealthPublic Health SurveillanceDisruptive InnovationPublic Health Surveillance Strengtheninge-Surveillance |
| spellingShingle | Affan eShaikh Lisa eFerland Robert eHood-Cree Loren eShaffer Scott eMcNabb Scott eMcNabb Disruptive Innovation Can Prevent the Next Pandemic Frontiers in Public Health Public Health Informatics One Health Public Health Surveillance Disruptive Innovation Public Health Surveillance Strengthening e-Surveillance |
| title | Disruptive Innovation Can Prevent the Next Pandemic |
| title_full | Disruptive Innovation Can Prevent the Next Pandemic |
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| title_short | Disruptive Innovation Can Prevent the Next Pandemic |
| title_sort | disruptive innovation can prevent the next pandemic |
| topic | Public Health Informatics One Health Public Health Surveillance Disruptive Innovation Public Health Surveillance Strengthening e-Surveillance |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpubh.2015.00215/full |
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