Learning from Silicon Valley

By Matt Bannick & Eic Hallstein

How the Omidyar Network uses a venture capital model to measure and evaluate effectiveness.

Shared Outcomes

By Judith Rodin & Nancy MacPherson

How the Rockefeller Foundation is approaching evaluation with developing country partners.

Risky Business

By Paul Brest 2

How The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation approaches high-risk philanthropic ventures.

Assessing One’s Own Performance

By James E. Canales & Kevin Rafter 1

What the Irvine Foundation has learned over the past six years about performance assessment.

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Framing the Issue

By Mark Smith & Barbara Lubash 1

The CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation and the managing director of Versant Ventures provide an introduction to innovations for better health care at lower cost.

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Investing for the Safety Net

By Stefanos Zenios & Lyn Denend 2

Technologies that reduce costs and improve care for the underserved are often the most difficult to scale up. But a handful of strategies could turn things around.

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Perspectives from the Field

By Lisa Suennen, William Rosenzweig, & Chaim Indig

Two venture capitalists and an entrepreneur discuss the challenges and opportunities that innovators confront as they seek to improve health care.

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Reinventing Health Care Services

By Arnold Milstein 1

A doctor describes his groundbreaking, transdisciplinary effort to design more cost-effective care models for conditions that drive a large proportion of US health spending.

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Opportunities in Mobile Health

By Jaspal S. Sandhu 16

The United States and other industrialized countries can learn from experiments in the developing world that use the humble cell phone as a platform for innovation.

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Government 2.0

By Carleen Hawn

Thanks to Todd Park, a federal agency has discovered that health care organizations can think more like nimble startups than like lumbering giants.