The Innovators Prescription
by Clayton M. Christensen · first published 2009
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A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform--from a legendary leader in innovation...Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations.We need a cure, and we need it now.Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen—whose bestselling The Innovator’s Dilemma revolutionized the business world—presents The Innovator’s Prescription, a comprehensive analysis of the strategies that will improvehealth care and make it affordable.Christensen applies
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…horrible at keeping costs under control). Insurers and to an extent employers are going to be the impetus for a lot of improvements in effectiveness and affordability. Read Clayton Christensen "The Innovators Prescription" for more on how this might play out.
on “Stanford computer diagnoses breast cancer more accurately than human doctor” ↗…making sure the right patient gets the right drugs, etc..). Clay Christensen's book, Innovator's Prescription, goes into a lot of detail about how this will most likely play out: http://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Prescription-Disruptive-Sol...
on “Disrupting Medicine: Check” ↗Do you have any references to their analysis? I would love to read it. Most people talk about ideas and politics without getting into the technical details of what's happening. The Innovators Prescription[1] is written by 3 PhD's (2 in medical and running institutions and one in business) who provide an analysis as part of the book. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Prescription-Disruptive-So...
on “High medical bill in the ER leaves family reeling” ↗…overhead and complexity are high. This leads to inefficiency which costs more. I've read that the math around the costs map fairly well to the cost models around factories [1]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Innovators-Prescription-Disruptive-So...
on “High medical bill in the ER leaves family reeling” ↗