Health
Breaking the Health Care Cost Trend with Innovative Service Delivery
Health care needs large-scale innovation that introduces higher-quality, lower-cost providers through a system that's mobile, digital, and efficient.
Tag: Health Care
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Framing the Issue
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
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.
Health
Partnering for a Cure
The Myelin Repair Foundation is creating a process for the rapid development of new treatments and cures.
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Perspectives from the Field
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
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
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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Foundations as Investors
Social investors are experimenting with a profusion of creative funding mechanisms to help innovators sustain health-improving approaches and to achieve greater impact.
Podcast
Global Issues
Service Innovation
This panel discussion focuses on healthcare delivery and how experts have sustained in delivering high-quality treatment.
Podcast
Nonprofits
Solving Infant Mortality with Social Entrepreneurship
Social entrepreneur Jane Chen discusses the challenges and rewards of the developing an innovative product, and shares insights on the attitudes that allow entrepreneurs to find success.