Will disruptive innovations cure health care?
Summary. Disruptive innovations are transforming healthcare by enabling simpler, cheaper alternatives delivered in decentralized settings by nurse practitioners and general practitioners instead of expensive specialists. Examples include low-cost eyeglasses and angioplasty replacing open-heart surgery. Established institutions resist these changes through cost-cutting and consolidation, but history shows incumbent institutions get replaced by those with business models suited to new technologies. Regulators and providers should enable rather than block disruptive innovations to achieve higher quality, lower-cost, more convenient care.
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Christensen, C. M., Bohmer, R. M., & Kenagy, J. W.. (2001). Will disruptive innovations cure health care?. PubMed. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11143147
Christensen, C M, et al. “Will disruptive innovations cure health care?.” PubMed, 2001. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11143147.
Christensen, C M, Richard M.J. Bohmer, and John W. Kenagy. 2001. “Will disruptive innovations cure health care?.” PubMed. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11143147.
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