Med-Tech Innovation November 18, 2021
After speaking at Med-Tech Innovation Expo 2021, Ashton Harper explains more about future diagnostic innovation, and the effects COVID-19 has had.
What role has innovation played in our response to COVID-19?
The concept of innovation in the context of healthcare is open to a degree of interpretation. When we hear the word innovation, we immediately think of some brand new technology or process of doing something, which is a core, but not sole, component of its meaning. A more comprehensive definition of innovation, offered by Kelly and Young, is the sum of “invention + adoption + diffusion.”
Roche Diagnostics launched the first CE-marked PCR COVID-19 test on 13 March 2020. Meaning, in less than a month, we...
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