Disruptive technologies applied in the field of public health allow improving the quality of its services and the quality of life of people.
Disruptive technologies must be used in all areas of human knowledge, with an emphasis on medicine, making it possible to permanently assess their benefits and risks. These technologies are directly related to the scope of Personalized, Predictive, Preventive and Participatory medicine (4P) and its application in health systems, and for its management to be effective it will be necessary to break barriers that facilitate its process.
The disruptive technologies that have affected medical practice to date and how this development is expected to transform the way medicine is practiced today and by 2030.
Based on the search and selection of information to know the state of the art on the subject. Analysis of cases and successful examples in the use of the technologies that appear in the literature were carried out. For the search, the words disruptive technologies, public health, preventive, participatory, predictive and personalized medicine were used. Interviews and focus groups were applied to define the fundamental issues and to identify barriers and good practices.
The objective of the review is to analyze the development of disruptive technologies that have affected medical practice to date and how this development is expected to transform the way medicine is practiced in 2030. With these elements, an analysis is made of some good practices to ensure that health institutions reach this new stage naturally and universities train the doctors of the future, as well as some barriers that may hinder their reach.
According to Christensen, disruptions begin with a technology or innovation that meets the needs of a customer segment: few, sophisticated and profitable in a sector (lower-end) or attending to certain attributes only appreciated by a few to the detriment of other more standard attributes. (new-market). A disruptive technology is any that, due to its novel nature, due to the fall of restrictions on its application or due to a severe reduction in costs, has the capacity to profoundly influence a sector of activity and its value chain, possibly bringing about the appearance of new roles, while eliminating others.
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Disruptive technology or disruptive innovation: it is that technology or innovation that leads to the appearance of products and services that preferably use a disruptive strategy (from the English disruptive, which produces a sudden disorder) against a sustainable strategy in order to compete against a dominant technology, looking for a progressive consolidation in a market.
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