The Innovator's Prescription
A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
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Leadership & Management
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- Why the health care industry is ripe for “disruptive innovation” and new business models
- How this disruptive innovation could work
- What this change would mean for the future of health care
Why you should read The Innovator's Prescription
Political fights over health care reform have generated countless pages of editorials, commentaries and polemics, and hundreds of hours of television and radio programming. However, the onslaught has included depressingly few carefully considered, thoughtfully presented proposals for holistic reform of the health care system. This book by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman and Jason Hwang is one of a very small number to transcend agitprop and offer an intelligent way forward. Its thesis is that in the natural course of economic progress many changes will happen inevitably in the health care industry. The book explains that health care is not fundamentally dissimilar to other industries where “disruptive innovation” has brought efficiency, economy and quality. Since the health care industry is likely to follow, for example, the path of the computer industry, getAbstract suggests this book as a must-read for health care professionals, policy makers and anyone with an interest in the future of the field. Perhaps these ideas – or even the thinking provoked by disagreeing with some of them – could help shape a robust solution to a vexing global problem, if that solution survives the legislative process (evoking the old saying that you should never watch laws or sausages being made – alas, it’s too late for that).
About the Authors
Clayton M. Christensen, also the author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, The Innovator’s Solution and Disrupting Class, is a professor at the Harvard Business School. The late Jerome H. Grossman, M.D., headed the Harvard Kennedy School Health Care Delivery Policy Program. Jason Hwang, M.D., is the co-founder and Executive Director, Health Care of Innosight Institute, a not-for-profit think tank devoted to applying the theories of disruptive innovation to problems in the social sector.
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Health care reform is becoming a hot political potato for governments,businesses and society at large.There is no "one size fits all "solution but I agree that combining different models will work, especially in developing countries such as South Africa where our tax base makes it difficult to offer a plan that will satisfy everybody.We have limited resources to achieve our health care reform objectives even though there is a need to cover millions who are currently not participating in the system.These limited resources are not only limited to money but also include among others a lack of skill in the industry to administer good health care to a bigger customer base.If the political potato is not properly managed in SA, it will descend into a human right issue because of our current exclusive model that only cater the best health care to the middle class while excluding the poor.
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