Create breakthrough services, products, and business modelsInnovating in Health Care offers effective approaches for designing, reworking, and implementing innovative healthcare services, products, and business models. It will help anyone working in healthcare service or product development, from hospitals to startups, to question the status quo in healthcare and implement new solutions that lower costs while increasing both quality and access.Globally, healthcare faces a threefold crisis of unsustainable economics, erratic quality, and unequal access. Just in the U.S., healthcare accounted for 18% of the 2017 GDP and will likely reach nearly 20% by 2025, while hospital-induced deaths have skyrocketed, and tens of millions of people remain uninsured. This book will focus on creating the innovations in healthcare that can meet these needs.- Written by the world''s leading authority on healthcare innovation - Includes success stories in every segment of the health care sector - Presents and applies the Six Factors in the environment that critically affect healthcare innovation- Guides the reader through tailoring a business plan specifically for the new businessDesigned for healthcare executives, providers, and degree students, Innovating in Health Care is a comprehensive guide for maximizing the viability of a new healthcare product, service, or business.


Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and the first to serve on many corporate health care/medical technology boards. She initiated the courses in health care at HBS and was the first faculty member to be selected by the students as their best instructor. In 2018, she was awarded the prestigious ACHE Honorary Fellowship which represents the leaders of America’s hospitals and was 1 of the 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare - World Edition by Grupo Midia. In 2014, she launched a Harvard MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), on Innovating in Health Care and in 2013, a continuing series of conferences, ＂21st-Century Health Care Management Education: Confronting Challenges for Innovation with a Modern Curriculum,＂ sponsored by a group she formed, GENiE (Global Educators Network for Health Care Innovation Education), which has supported the many schools that have introduced courses/programs on Innovating in Health Care. Regi earned her BS degree at MIT and her Doctorate at HBS.