Clayton Christensen Writes a Prescription for Health Care Reform
Professor Clayton Christensen Photo: Stuart Cahill BOSTON — The U.S. health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford health care, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations. Harvard Business School Professor Clayton Christensen - author of the pioneering bestseller The Innovator's Dilemma, now offers his diagnosis of this acute problem in his new book, The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care (McGraw Hill). With his physician coauthors, Dr. Jason Hwang and the late Dr. Jerome Grossman, Christensen applies the principles of "disruptive innovation" to our broken health care system, examining a range of symptoms to offer proven solutions. The Innovator's Prescription provides a comprehensive analysis of the strategies that will improve health care in this country and make it affordable. By examining health care through the lenses of managing innovation - general models that have emerged from 20 years of studying these problems at Harvard and applying them to a wide range of industries, from telecommunications and computer hardware/software to public education - Christensen and his coauthors explain why healthcare has become "progressively expensive and inaccessible." Readers will discover how:
About the Authors The late Jerome H. Grossman, M.D., was the Director of the Harvard Kennedy School Health Care Delivery Policy Program, a nationally recognized health care policy expert, and a pioneer in health informatics. He also served as CEO of a major medical center, chaired the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and co-founded four successful companies. Jason Hwang, M.D., MBA, is an internist and senior strategist for the Healthcare Practice at Innosight LLC, an innovation and strategy consulting firm founded by Professor Christensen. He also cofounded and serves as the Executive Director of Healthcare at Innosight Institute, a non-profit social innovation think tank. Previously, Dr. Hwang was a chief resident and clinical instructor at the University of California, Irvine. |
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