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Christensen and his co-authors (both doctors)...explain how various aspects of the health care system...can be effectively disrupted to produce more cost-effective and accessible healthcare.
--Business Strategy Reivew, March 2011
--Business Strategy Reivew, March 2011
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A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform--from a legendary leader in innovation . . .
Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations.
We need a cure, and we need it now.
Harvard Business School’s Clayton M. Christensen—whose bestselling The Innovator’s Dilemma revolutionized the business world—presents The Innovator’s Prescription, a comprehensive analysis of the strategies that will improve health care and make it affordable.
Christensen applies the principles of disruptive innovation to the broken health care system with two pioneers in the field—Dr. Jerome Grossman and Dr. Jason Hwang. Together, they examine a range of symptoms and offer proven solutions.
YOU’LL DISCOVER HOW
- “Precision medicine” reduces costs and makes good on the promise of personalized care
- Disruptive business models improve quality, accessibility, and affordability by changing the way hospitals and doctors work
- Patient networks enable better treatment of chronic diseases
- Employers can change the roles they play in health care to compete effectively in the era of globalization
- Insurance and regulatory reforms stimulate disruption in health care
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I am a UK medical doctor and was passed this book by a family member. My initial reluctance to engage with the detail eventually gave way to the painful realisation that much of what is said here is true and applies to the UK as it does to the US. This book has changed my view of healthcare and specifically how badly we deliver it. Worth a read even if you are skeptical!
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having been exposed to Christensen's theory of disruption in his previous books (The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business (Harperbusiness Essentials) and The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth) and also from taking his course at business school, I bought this book to give me a refresher in the theory and to also see one of the world's most impressive minds apply his knowledge to one of the world's biggest problems; how to make healthcare affordable for ageing populations.
Overall, the book doesn't disappoint. In Christensen's logical, structured style the various points he makes are illustrated well with insightful case studies (both within healthcare and from other industries such as electronics that readers of the previous books will be familiar with) and a clear narrative flow. He carefully dissects the various issues and applying the various elements of disruption theory builds a framework for how to build a healthcare system that works on all levels.
I can't do it justice in a paragraph but his major argument is that having hospitals (which are structured to solve complex problems) as the main repository of care is very inefficient. Instead, various activities of hospitals such as routine dialysis or hip operations should be hived off into much more efficient external clinics that are more able to charge on a results-basis and drive down costs by using more skilled technicians rather than high cost doctors. However, there's much more in here as he gives extremely robust analysis of all elements of healthcare.
While his perspective and analysis is largely based on the US, he talks at a general level making his conclusions applicable to any country in the world.
If you've read previous Christensen books then it's a novel application of his theories (if a little repetitive). If you haven't read any of his previous work then he walks you through his argument (but not in the same detail as previous books) such that you can read this book on its own. However be warned, this is definitely towards the 'textbook' end of business books and it avoids a lot of the political debate that drags down other debates on healthcare (but which may potentially be more interesting). While still very readable it can become quite in depth and requires a lot of thought. Not really a book in the 'pop-business' mould but if you're interested in the subject a great read.
I really wish someone in the UK government would take a real good look at the conclusions.
Overall, the book doesn't disappoint. In Christensen's logical, structured style the various points he makes are illustrated well with insightful case studies (both within healthcare and from other industries such as electronics that readers of the previous books will be familiar with) and a clear narrative flow. He carefully dissects the various issues and applying the various elements of disruption theory builds a framework for how to build a healthcare system that works on all levels.
I can't do it justice in a paragraph but his major argument is that having hospitals (which are structured to solve complex problems) as the main repository of care is very inefficient. Instead, various activities of hospitals such as routine dialysis or hip operations should be hived off into much more efficient external clinics that are more able to charge on a results-basis and drive down costs by using more skilled technicians rather than high cost doctors. However, there's much more in here as he gives extremely robust analysis of all elements of healthcare.
While his perspective and analysis is largely based on the US, he talks at a general level making his conclusions applicable to any country in the world.
If you've read previous Christensen books then it's a novel application of his theories (if a little repetitive). If you haven't read any of his previous work then he walks you through his argument (but not in the same detail as previous books) such that you can read this book on its own. However be warned, this is definitely towards the 'textbook' end of business books and it avoids a lot of the political debate that drags down other debates on healthcare (but which may potentially be more interesting). While still very readable it can become quite in depth and requires a lot of thought. Not really a book in the 'pop-business' mould but if you're interested in the subject a great read.
I really wish someone in the UK government would take a real good look at the conclusions.
Format:Hardcover
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).
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