COVID-19 has inspired global healthcare innovation
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SPECIAL SECTION ON COVID-19: COMMENTARY
COVID-19 has inspired global healthcare innovation Adam Palanica 1
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Yan Fossat 1
Received: 19 May 2020 / Accepted: 18 August 2020 # The Canadian Public Health Association 2020
Abstract Under normal circumstances, healthcare innovation is costly and time-consuming. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has produced the silver lining of inspiring healthcare innovation around the world, with collaboration across multiple disciplines all working toward the same goal of saving lives. Healthcare innovation can develop at unprecedented speed when individuals focus on solving real-world problems, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Anyone can innovate, from anywhere, at any age, and this open-minded perspective allows innovation to occur at its finest when motivated to find solutions toward a welldefined problem. Résumé Dans des circonstances normales, l’innovation est coûteuse et prend du temps dans le domaine de la santé. Cependant, la pandémie de COVID-19 a eu comme effet positif de favoriser l’innovation dans les soins de santé partout dans le monde, des acteurs de diverses disciplines œuvrant dans le même but, celui de sauver des vies. L’innovation dans le domaine de la santé peut se développer à une vitesse sans précédent lorsque les gens cherchent à résoudre des problèmes du monde réel et collaborent avec des équipes interfonctionnelles. N’importe qui peut innover, de n’importe où, à n’importe quel âge, une ouverture d’esprit propice à une innovation optimisée lorsqu’il est question de chercher des solutions à un problème bien défini. Keywords Innovation . Healthcare . COVID-19 Mots-clés Innovation . soins de santé . COVID-19
Innovation in the world of COVID-19 Innovation. How long does it really take in healthcare? As a benchmark, it takes an average of 12 years to develop a new pharmaceutical drug from bench to market (Kraljevic et al. 2014). Other new technologies and methodologies in healthcare may also take years and several millions or billions of dollars before they are ready for public use. That is under “normal” circumstances. But what if the world is not normal? What if a global pandemic, such as COVID-19, swept through the population, spurring everyone to create innovative healthcare solutions for the current problem? It seems that during these uncertain times, one thing is certain: collaboration from the global population focusing on a real-world
* Adam Palanica [email protected] 1
Klick Labs, Klick Applied Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
problem is invaluable to developing healthcare innovation at an unprecedented speed. To be clear, other innovation frameworks have been previously developed, but they are either completely theoretical or focus on a narrow field of research. For the first time, the world has now demonstrated bona fide evidence and actionable methods to achieving global healthcare innovation. In the past few months, the world has seen the pace of healthcare innovation accelerate at a tremendous rate, with the typical timeline of yea
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