The Innovator's Prescription

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Walmart & Healthcare

Innovators Prescription was a fantastic read because it draws on such a breadth of business experience.

When i was thinking about the Kaiser story and the examples given on employee healthcare initiatives, it made perfect sense.  Now, it seems Walmart is getting smart: …

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Added by Barnaby Page on November 17, 2011 at 4:02am — 1 Comment

Curious

I joined this site because I was truly hoping for some discussions and suggestions on how to shake up the healthcare system in this country. However, that is not what I have found in reading the all to few postings from others here. So, what exactly was/is the intent of this site? Is it for general sharing of interesting or disturbing trends in healthcare? Is it to question the growing power of the FDA and pharmaceuticals in determining, and even mandating, certain healthcare…

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Added by Mary Beth Rosenstiel on November 10, 2011 at 5:27pm — 3 Comments

Recent develpment and trend

It has been around two years since the publish of this great book. I would like to know if there are more updates since then. Have we started see to the impact of this book on the healthcare industry and government policy. Any new developments along the prediction of the book.

Added by Hong Shen on October 15, 2011 at 2:22am — 1 Comment

Great book

We have been reading the book with some colleagues at Francisco Marroquin University, in Guatemala City.  We are amazed at the interesting content of the Innovators Prescription.

Added by Veronica Spross on October 9, 2011 at 5:12pm — 1 Comment

Why we ALL need recovery

Originally published in Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Weekly (September 5, 2011)

 

If you think we in healthcare are not in a world of

major change, stop here and read no further. That

would be a clinical matter, atypical denial or delusions.

Turn the page.



Over the past few years, change has become a

constant as we scurry to prepare for such realities as

the Affordable…

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Added by M Flaherty on September 14, 2011 at 12:06pm — No Comments

Wonderful description but not a solution

While this is probably the most important book on the subject to ever be written, it still is far short of a solution to our serious problems.  It is much more of a description rather than a prescription.  The most serious question left unanswered is: Why have our current true integrated delivery systems, which the book specifically references, not done a much better job at better care at lower costs?  The only answer given in the book is that these IDSs operate in the current system and… Continue

Added by Frank Erwin on June 24, 2011 at 8:56am — 1 Comment

Medical Training

The authors discuss the shortage of doctors and nurses and the void being filled by foreigners. Many of those foreigners receive training without the costs associated with higher education in the U.S. This is another discussion, perhaps, and it is part of the problem with health care costs in the U.S.

Added by G Paul Adams on May 23, 2011 at 4:10am — 2 Comments

High Deductibles

The authors do mention high deductible health insurance policies. They fail to account for the psychological aspect of paying out roughly $5,000.00 a year and still having to no coverage until hitting an additional $5,000.00 in medical expenses! To pay for the policy and squirrel away another $5,000.00 for actual medical expenses (over $10,000.00 a year) is just not possible for most workers. I had such a policy and felt like I was throwing away… Continue

Added by G Paul Adams on May 23, 2011 at 4:04am — 2 Comments

Health Insurance

What seems missing is discussion about the added costs of health insurance. Insurers have had a commission to simplify paperwork processing with a single form to be used by all providers for over ten years. In all of this time, no progress has been made. Yet this is a huge cost. In Connecticut, for example, the added cost is about $2B a year according to federal studies.

 

Another approach could lower premiums. The idea is for an insurer to simply group all unaffiliated insured…

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Added by G Paul Adams on May 22, 2011 at 9:53am — 2 Comments

Prison ships to Australia 1793

I was just listening to a Planet Money podcast on incentives in economics. They talked about the switch from fee for service to pay for performance from the days when England was shipping prisoners to Australia in the 1700s.


Funny that healthcare has made the mistake 200 years later.…


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Added by William Hoos on September 16, 2010 at 6:00pm — No Comments

Invitation to I-Rx Demo Project Proposal - Presentation to HBSC-DC March 25, 2010

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CLUB OF WASHINGTON, DC…

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Added by Marshall Maglothin on March 21, 2010 at 8:39am — No Comments

The Unspoken Casualty of the Health Care Crisis

We all hear about people with illnesses not being able to afford the care they need because they don't have health insurance. And this is a terrible problem. But in the next few years we will be hit with an even bigger problem. Hundreds of thousands of people who have recently become uninsured.have been skipping wellness exams like mammograms, colonoscopies, etc. When these people later get seriously ill because… Continue

Added by Sam Norwich on March 11, 2010 at 2:59pm — No Comments

The real state of disruptive innovation in healthcare



Here's a graph showing the lack of basis of disruptive innovation in health care:





see:http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2010/3/just-as-good-medicine/4…

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Added by ippisl on March 4, 2010 at 10:56am — No Comments

Tylenol recall of 2010



Oh boy – the Tylenol recall of 2010 is beginning.



This time, it's more than voluntary - the FDA has sided against lobbyists for once and initiated a recall of multiple Tylenol products, along with other Johnson and Johnson products such as St. Joseph's Aspirin and certain Motrin products. The company… Continue

Added by GimsonY on January 21, 2010 at 12:06am — No Comments

Are You in the Right Collaboration Environment?

More than team building and management.

Collaboration is, to me, about the division of labor (as the word's etymology implies) that leads to cooperation toward a common goal. There are two models of collaboration and team-building that I believe speak to the spirit of consensual cooperation.

One is Christensen's model of consensus-driven cooperation*. From that view, the effectiveness of collaboration depends on how well one executes two factors. The first is to correctly…

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Added by Demetrios Perdikis on January 14, 2010 at 8:30am — No Comments

The importance of understanding the mechanics/processes of MS.

In Clayton Christensen's "Innovator's Prescription" he highlights a chart which shows a correlation between how treatable common diseases and conditions are versus how much current science understands the disease/condition.



Figure 2.4 Current map of common medical conditions from "Innovator's Prescription" by Clayton M. Christensen and how the Myelin Repair Foundation wants to move "multiple sclerosis" up the continuum of understanding and… Continue

Added by Justine Lam on November 18, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

'StealthCare' providers continue to create innovative 'disruptions'

'StealthCare' providers are now developing international, virtual, systems of care, using technology, telecommunications, remote medical devices and software to create 24x7 care anywhere a cell phone or Internet can reach.

Added by Ron Hammerle on September 24, 2009 at 9:02am — No Comments

NY Says H1N1 Shot Coverage Mandatory

Source: Northern NY News / GouverneurTimes.com



Vaccinations for Seasonal Flu and Novel H1N1 Meet Provisions of the

State Child Wellness Law, Not Subject to Co-Payment, Co-Insurance or Annual Deductible





Governor David A. Paterson today announced that insurers must cover seasonal flu and novel H1N1 vaccinations for children who are aged 19 and younger and enrolled in comprehensive health plans. The policy is consistent with New York’s preventive and primary… Continue

Added by LucianoV on September 23, 2009 at 12:51am — 2 Comments

Weird News - Urine Test as aid for Drug Prescription



A new urine test could help predict which drugs will be most effective for doctors' patients.



In trials, scientists showed that the test could predict how well men would respond to paracetamol.



The test analysis levels of different by-products of people's metabolism, which could ultimately allow GPs to work out which drugs suit which people. Well at least this wont cost too much and I think… Continue

Added by LucianoV on August 23, 2009 at 10:55pm — No Comments

From live chat on 7/29/09:

From live chat on 7/29/09:



"Your success at Southwest was in context of a single company with a compelling vision and culture. Health care with competing/conflicting interests is a different challenge. How can those entrenched silos be overcome to achieve high performance?"



Airlines actually have many of the same challenges that we find in healthcare -- fragmentation between pilots, flight attendants, mechanics and so on is similar to the fragmentation we find between… Continue

Added by Jody Hoffer Gittell on August 5, 2009 at 12:56pm — No Comments

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