Nick-this is the message to send to HEALTHMGMT listserve, thanks. Ravi Ramamurti
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Harvard Business Review Press has just published V. Govindarajan and R. Ramamurti, Reverse innovation in health care: How to make value-based delivery work (HBR Press, 2018), available through Amazon.
The book's counterintuitive assertion is that rich countries like the US can benefit from innovations in poor countries like India, where huge demand coupled with severe shortages of medical expertise and equipment has led some of hospitals to achieve breakthrough innovations in health care delivery. These Indian hospitals are like the Fords and Toyotas of health care delivery. The bulk of the book profiles four US hospitals and startups that are already applying Indian-style practices to transform segments of the industry. Many more such bottom-up initiatives could begin to fix the problems of US health care.
Two of the US cases in the book are discussed in the HBR magazine article "Transforming health care from the ground up" HBR (July-Aug 2018). Interviews with the authors and op-eds appear in MarketWatch, Bloomberg Radio, Linkedin's Weekend Essay, Bloomberg Baystate Business, STAT, Times of India (Sunday), etc.
We welcome your comments and feedback.
Ravi Ramamurti
University Distinguished Professor of International Business & Strategy
Director, Center for Emerging Markets
Hayden 309, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Tel: (617) 373 4760; Email: r.ramamurti@neu.edu