Category: Disruptive innovation

1. Transferring healthcare innovation from low income countries

   Posted on 2:56pm Friday 20th Apr 2012

   Originally posted on HaCIRIC website: 20 April 2012

   By James Barlow

   Low and middle income countries (LMICs) offer some of the most interesting examples of healthcare innovation. Some of this involves adapting solutions from richer countries but it also involves developing local, ‘bottom-up’ innovations to achieve cost-effective outcomes.

   What lessons, then, do they offer us in richer countries?

2. Paper tests tear up diagnostic norms

   Posted on 2:53pm Friday 23rd Sep 2011

   Originally posted on HaCIRIC website: 23 September 2011 by James Barlow

   Long ago in rich countries, we began the move to cheap and easier diagnostics. Women didn’t want to wait for a doctor to say whether they were pregnant.  So, over the counter testing kits were born. Latterly, access to the Internet has also greatly extended opportunities for diagnosis. Nevertheless, expensive diagnostic equipment and expertise have remained largely the norm within the NHS and other developed world health systems.