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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book.

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How Telemedicine Can Ease ER Overcrowding

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. “This longstanding problem is mainly driven by the imbalance between increasing patient flow and the shortage of emergency room capacity,” the researchers explain. “While the ER is supposed to be a safety net of the health care system, the overcrowding problem has strained this safety net and posits various threats.”

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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business Review

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. health care keeps getting costlier. These astronomical costs are largely due to the way competition works in American health care. This shift is long overdue.

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. The Future of Health Care. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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How Mobile Phones Can "Reverse Innovate" Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Many communities in emerging markets receive their front-line primary health care from community health care workers. In South Africa, for instance, 50 percent of all health care providers are community workers. In fact, Vodafone spun out the work through the creation of a Mobile Health Unit in January 2010.

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Health Care Reforms That Work

Harvard Business Review

First, they are responsible for contributing a large chunk of patients into the health care system, especially in developed countries like the US. All of our new policies and efforts to provide affordable health care could pale in comparison to the exponentially rising costs associated with these diseases and their demographics.

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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. In fact, this environment is the most disruptive I’ve witnessed in my 35 years in the health care industry. Carol Yepes/Getty Images.