Abstract
There is a reciprocal and tight relationship between the capabilities of existing technologies and possibilities of medical strategies. At times, one of the sides introduces innovations at a strong and consistent pace; however, the other side merely waits for an event to trigger its dynamics. Alternatively, an outburst of technological innovation induces immediate transformative evolution in the realm of medical ideas and interventions and vice versa.
The very dialectics of strategy and technology in medicine deploys processes and, indeed, motivates clinicians and caregivers to seek fundamental improvement in the lives of their patients. There appears to be no underlying principle of “who came first,” but an exchangeable force field of actions and reactions we call innovation.
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Badakhshi, H. (2016). Current Available Technologies. In: Image-Guided Stereotactic Radiosurgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39189-2_5
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