Disruptive Innovation - a cure to Health Care System

The health care system in the United Stated is on critical life support.

The Symptoms?

• crowded EDs
• many uninsured
• inequitable distribution of resources
• inequitable access to services
• lack of transparency (in care delivered and in pricing of services/procedures)
• discontinuity of care
• inconsistent quality of care
• inappropriate care (timing, amount)

The Diagnosis?

• unsustainable business practices

The Recommended Treatment?

• new business model - one that reduces costs yet improves both quality and accessibility.  (currently, hospitals and physician’s practices are compensated for treating illness, not promoting wellness.  hospitals profit from full beds and doctors profit from repeat visits; there is no financial incentive to keep patients healthy.)
• e.g., disruptive innovators in health care are aiming to shape a new system that provides a continuum of care focused on each individual patient’s needs rather than focused on crises.  the continuum of care follows the patients wherever they go within an integrated system, allowing provider to stay on top of what preventative measures and therapies are most effective and preventing providers from prescribing competing medications and ordering needless duplication of tests

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