The Innovator's Prescription

Jason Hwang
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Networks of Innovation

In The Innovator's Prescription, we estimated that facilitated networks -- business models in which customers exchange resources with one another -- comprise up to 40% of GDP. In comparison to the general economy, networks seem drastically underutilized in health care, despite the increasing ubiquity of telecommunications that has allowed providers and patients to connect in new ways. However, there are many innovative network models beginning to take shape.



We highlighted how… Continue

Posted on May 1, 2009 at 8:30am

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A Grave Mismatch

A McKinsey analysis released this month calculated that 43.2% of health care costs in 2006 were related to “catastrophic expenses,” but insurance payments accounted for 57.7% of the funding for all expenses. This mismatch supports our assertion in The Innovator’s Prescription that today’s health insurance products are no longer “true insurance” meant to protect assets… Continue

Posted on December 17, 2008 at 3:37pm — 1 Comment

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Money for nothing

In an excellent story called “A healthcare system badly out of balance,” Boston Globe reporters investigated what they called “the best kept secret in Massachusetts medicine.” Labeling it the “Partners Effect,” the article exposed that health insurers pay Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Children’s Hospital 15 to 60 percent more than other state hospitals… Continue

Posted on December 10, 2008 at 9:00am

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Flight of the Doctors

According to a Physician’s Foundation survey released on November 18, 2008, 49% of physician respondents plan to reduce the number of patients seen or stop practicing altogether in the next three years. 78% said medicine is either “no longer rewarding” or “less rewarding”; 60% would not recommend medicine as a career; and 45% would retire immediately if they had the financial means to do so. Primary care, in… Continue

Posted on December 3, 2008 at 12:30pm — 5 Comments

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Personal genomics and disruption

The November 10, 2008 issue of Time hailed “The Retail DNA Test” as the Invention of the Year. 23andMe, which was profiled as part of the article, offers a $399 saliva test* that features a number of disruptive characteristics. The test is marketed directly to consumers and performed via mail order – eliminating the need to pass through traditional venues of… Continue

Posted on November 17, 2008 at 5:00am — 3 Comments

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At 1:52pm on March 27, 2011, PelouzePelouze said…
The fact that care is no longer physician centered is irreversible. Medicine school must change the they train doctors .
At 12:32pm on July 13, 2009, Christopher M. GregoryChristopher M. Gregory said…
As an advisor to physicians, I can attest to the fact that there are doctors who would call it quits if they had the means. This is a growing sentiment that I have seen over the last 25 years, and it doesn't bode well for us.
 
 
 

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