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The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care Hardcover – Dec 4 2008

by Clayton M. Christensen (Author), Jerome H. Grossman (Author), Jason Hwang M.D. (Author)

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The author applies his revolutionary principles to a broken health-care industry that is in dire need of innovation, in an in-depth analysis that shows businesses, insurance companies, and health workers how to lower costs, improve care, and streamline the process.

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Hardcover: 496 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition (Dec 25 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071592083
ISBN-13: 978-0071592086
Product Dimensions: 16 x 3.6 x 23.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 862 g
Customer Reviews: 6 customer reviews
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #196,972 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #48 in Administration & Policy/Health Policy Textbooks
- #76 in Hospital Administration (Books)
- #13 in Health Care Administration

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MEET THE CURE TO AMERICA'S HEALTH CARE ILLS

"Clayton Christensen has done it again, writing yet another book full of valuable insights. The Innovator's Prescription might just mark the beginning of a new era in health care."
Michael Bloomberg, Mayor, New York City

"Clear, entertaining, and provocative, The Innovator's Prescription should be read by anyone who cares about improving the health and health care of all."
Dr. Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, President and CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

"Comprehensive in its vision, astute in its diagnosis, and clear in its guidance, The Innovator's Prescription offers strong medicine for a health care system that is far from well."
Dr. Harvey V. Fineberg, President, Institute of Medicine

"A wealth of insights--with new ideas and revelations in every chapter. Read it, and you will be armed with solid ideas for making health care better."
George Halvorson, Chairman and CEO, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals

"The Innovators Prescription is a well researched, clearly organized road map to a sustainablehealth care system."
Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services

"The Innovator's Prescription is an important and timely contribution to the national debate on health system reform. We would do well to consider it carefully."
Tom Daschle, former Senate Majority Leader and Distinguished Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

"Clayton Christensen has helped many businessesincluding our own--find new growth opportunitiesthrough deeper insights into the future of health and the health care system. I can think of no one better equipped to lead this comprehensive global assessment."
Bill Weldon, Chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson

Clayton M. Christensen's bestselling books are:

"REQUIRED READING."BusinessWeek

"ABSORBING."The New York Times

"THOUGHTFUL."Fortune

"BRILLIANT."Michael R. Bloomberg

"VISIONARY."Publishers Weekly

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McGraw-Hill authors represent the leading experts in their fields and are dedicated to improving the lives, careers, and interests of readers worldwide.

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Ikabod

Honest about the description of the product.

October 8, 2019

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Love it.

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Mr. Brian Clark

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March 23, 2017

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Jacalyn

fascinating read

September 29, 2013

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Dr. Christensen has been quoted as saying that healthcare is the gnarliest business problem he's ever encountered! This book explains why.

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Alain Larouche

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September 26, 2014

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The most enlightened reading in this domain. Thanks Mr. Christensen

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A Guide to Unleashing Efficiencies More Rapidly in U.S. Healthcare

July 27, 2010

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"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope." -- Jeremiah 29:11 (NKJV)

In The Innovator's Prescription, disruptive innovation expert Professor Clayton M. Christensen teams with Jerome H. Grossman, M.D., and Jason Hwang, M.D. to consider how new technologies, improved business models, changed processes, improved regulation, and better ways of training can greatly expand the amount of health care that can be provided for what is being spent now, opportunities to speed better treatments through development and testing, and patients can be encouraged to do more for themselves. The basic arguments are based on analogies to other major industries where disruptive innovation caused costs to drop as greatly simplification and specialization occurred.

I think that few will disagree that the opportunities described here are mostly real ones. I wasn't convinced that the foundations for change are sufficiently well established to make serious shifts in the United States. I believe that what is described here is very likely to occur rather in the rapidly developing part of the emerging market countries such as India (home of Aravind Eye Care System) where the lack of any health care for many creates a humanitarian incentive to lower regulatory barriers and to push aside old, outmoded habits.

Americans don't seem to be fundamentally unhappy with their system of very expensive health care that produces results in many categories that are inferior to what is achieved in other developed countries. It's a lot like the benefits the U.S. government dispenses when it runs trillion dollar deficits. Most people are getting a lot more back than what they put in. The free lunch will have to stop before the efficiencies will begin.

I was pleased to see that unlike earlier books by Professor Christensen this one attempts to integrate business model innovation into the discussion. The result was unfortunately pretty primitive, describing four categories of business models rather than the full richness of business model innovation. I'm increasingly persuaded that the so-called disruptive innovation school is really just the study of how specialists simplify, streamline, and organize markets that poorly organized generalists are trying to milk through charging as high prices as possible. That's only one category of disruptive innovation, but it is certainly a valid one that has been very important for over 100 years.

The book's other missed opportunity is to look well beyond what today's best practices suggest . . . toward what the ideal way to foster competition to do a great deal more for less and improved health (rather than health care) would look like.

Despite those missed opportunities, I don't know of a better book for proposing some helpful ways to at least allow Americans to get more health care for what is being spent. Nice work!

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October 28, 2014

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This is a brilliant piece of work. Very useful to anyone interested in business innovation in health care and in creating better health systems.

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