Developing global health technology standards: what can other industries teach us?

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a lack of effective and affordable technologies to address health needs in the developing world. One way to address problems of innovation and affordability is to design global health technologies to follow agreed-upon standards. This Debate article argues that we can better develop standards for global health technologies if we learn lessons from other industries.

Discussion

The article's Background section begins by explaining why standards are needed in global health. For example, if global health technologies can be modularized into independent interfacing parts, these parts can then interact via well-defined standards in a "plug and play" fashion. This can avoid development of mutually incompatible solutions by different organizations, speed the pace

SUBMITTER: Masum H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3853011 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature