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 twentieth 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 existin...

Many commercial software firms face the possibility that free and open source software (FOSS) will disrupt their markets. A “disruptive innovation” is a new product, service, or business model that initially enters a market as a low-priced, lower-quality alternative to the products of market incumbents but which, through a process of rapid improvement, eventually satisfies mainstream consumers ...

Academic medical centers (AMCs) have the potential to be leaders in the era of healthcare delivery reform, but most have yet to display a commitment to delivery innovation on par with their commitment to basic research. Several institutional factors impede delivery innovation including the paucity of adequate training in design and implementation of new delivery models and the lack of establish...

A strength and weakness analysis is made of the current coronary surgery practice and integrated in the socio-economic and legal changes. This analysis identifies important issues for the stability of a cardio-surgical unit. Current literature studying economic survival and innovation propose a disruptive strategy as most likely towards economic survival versus an incremental strategy. A disrup...

BACKGROUND Digital innovation, introduced across many industries, is a strong force of transformation. Some industries have seen faster transformation, whereas the health care sector only recently came into focus. A context where digital corporations move into health care, payers strive to keep rising costs at bay, and longer-living patients desire continuously improved quality of care points t...

In a last few decades, innovation research scholars proposed several new concepts, one after another, but independently, and in a chronological sequence: technology fusion; digital convergence; disruptive technology; open innovation; and IoT (Internet of Things). Each concept has its own explaining power for a certain innovation at a certain time period, but has obvious limitations. A basic que...

We propose a causal model to explain radical IS innovation. Based on the presence of a combination of predictors the model explains three types of radical IS innovation: (1) radical base innovations, i.e. breakthroughs in computing architectures; (2) radical process innovation; and (3) radical service innovation. We conduct a cross-sector field study to validate the model and identify which fac...

Whilst many studies have looked at the issue of diffusion of technology in a myriad of settings, few have focused on the impact of disruptive innovation in the field of information systems (IS) and even fewer on the impact of disruptive innovation on technology diffusion in the context of small-tomedium (SME) sized businesses such as holiday parks. Those that have investigated this topic have c...