If innovation requires a minimum infrastructure, then this is still more evidence that healthcare – primary care in particular – should no longer revel in being "the world's largest cottage industry", to quote incoming NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens.
The minimum infrastructure requirement and ease to perform the assay makes this method highly useful for resource poor countries for better disease management.
The ROM-based LED blinking program discussed in the chapter demonstrates the bare minimum infrastructure that is required to get a simple assembly-language program loaded into and started out of on-board ROM.
A basic molecular biology lab with minimum infrastructure; a thermocycler, a UV transilluminator and a gel electrophoresis unit are a onetime investment and if they can be provided, PCR could be performed in an endemic setting for routine diagnosis.
The Overarching Plan presents the minimum infrastructure needed to implement ABF within each workstream.
A minimum infrastructure and a determinate skill set for its application are required.
