Abstract
ARE WE CRAZY?The launch of a new journal, the Canadian Prosthetics and Orthotics Journal (CPOJ), is a good time to consider the brilliance – or foolhardiness – of such a venture as well-established peer-review journals struggle to survive. The challenges faced by the traditional, print based, peer-review publishing model are rooted in a greater wave of rapid disruptive change influencing technology innovation models and economic models in a wide range of sectors, including health care across the clinical care delivery continuum.
 How will this change influence prosthetics and orthotics and what does it mean for the future? These are important questions to consider, as CPOJ charts a course aiming to respond to these trends in a positive, sustainable way while adhering to high professional and academic standards. Finding answers starts with a short reflection on the causes of this change: the threads weaving the fabric of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
 Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/cpoj/article/view/30000/22875
 How to cite: Raschke S.U. Transformation, revolution, evolution: provocative times for prosthetics & orthotics. Canadian Prosthetics & Orthotics Journal. Volume1, Issue1, No1, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.33137/cpoj.v1i1.30000
Highlights
The launch of a new journal, the Canadian Prosthetics and Orthotics Journal (CPOJ), is a good time to consider the brilliance – or foolhardiness – of such a venture as well-established peer-review journals struggle to survive
The challenges faced by the traditional, print based, peer-review publishing model are rooted in a greater wave of rapid disruptive change influencing technology innovation models and economic models in a wide range of sectors, including health care across the clinical care delivery continuum. How will this change influence prosthetics and orthotics and what does it mean for the future? These are important questions to consider, as CPOJ charts a course aiming to respond to these trends in a positive, sustainable way while adhering to high professional and academic standards
Finding answers starts with a short reflection on the causes of this change: the threads weaving the fabric of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Summary
Provocative Times For Prosthetics & Orthotics Volume 1, Issue 1, Article No 1, July 2018. Marshall McLuhan: “Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it’s just the beginning”
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