The Coming Golden Age of Disruptive Innovation in Health Care

The disruptive innovation of price transparency in health care.

Until very recently,healthcare in theUnitedStateswas deliveredbehind the securewalls of a fortress that kept informationonthepriceschargedforhealthcareandthe quality of that care opaque from public view. Over time, enormousandever-increasing amounts of money have disappeared behind the fortress walls. Much good undoubtedly was done for patients entering the castle in search of succor. But it ha...

Disruptive Innovation in Health Care: Challenges for Engineering

Seven years after the publication of two seminal reports by the Institute of Medicine, To Err Is Human (IOM, 2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (IOM, 2001), which documented uneven quality, dangers, and inconsistencies in health care delivery, a majority of the nation’s health care providers are still struggling with those same challenges. Simultaneously, a backlash against the managed-care s...

Overregulation of Health Care: Musings on Disruptive Innovation Theory

Health care costs in the United States are rising at an extraordinary rate. The escalation has been attributed to a variety of factors, including the managed-care backlash, consumer choice, consumerism in an aging society, and insufficient competition in the health care industry. In addition, anecdotal evidence suggests that regulatory control may be a significant driver of health care costs. I...

THE Golden Age of child health.

EXPERT PANEL ON EFFECTIVE WAYS OF INVESTING IN HEALTH (EXPH) Disruptive Innovation - Considerations for health and health care in Europe

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