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The Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution For Health Care (2008)

by Clayton M. Christensen(Favorite Author)

4.2 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0071592083 (ISBN13: 9780071592086)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

McGraw-Hill

review 1: I give this three stars because of it's academic style. That is to be expected from an academic whose audience is academics and policy wonks but it makes it a bit of a slog for the lay reader. I actually did not finish reading the book because of it's depth but I skimmed quite a bit and I gained an appreciation for the ideas presented. Plus, it gave me hope that there is a free market solution to this nation's health care woes. Now, it is time for lighter summer fare.
review 2: This book is very well-researched and clearly written. It was a breath of fresh air in a health care debate that often talks in abstractions and provides little solutions, or ones that re-establish the same problems and call them by a different name. I agree fully with a lot of what Ch... moreristensen says about allowing disruptive technologies into the health care space, and how they can help our system. He makes solid points about the 3 different business models in health care that are currently being forced to co-exist within one broken system. However, I do not agree with his assertions that employers (and essentially Big Business) should take over the job of creating integrated fixed fee systems (though I do agree that these seem to be the best course). He even goes as far as to say that one they establish these systems, the businesses should start running their own medical schools. I agree that our hospital systems and medical school are painfully antiquated and struggling, but the answer is not to cut them completely out of the equation if we care at all about preserving the public service mission of medicine. I also thought that the author ignored the big question that came up for me, which was physician job satisfaction. He talks about models of care that sound, frankly, incredibly tedious and unimaginative to practice in, which was surprisingly unaddressed considering he is an MD.As a family physician-in-training, this book provided me with an outline of how to break apart the primary care system into profitable chunks that are easier for patients to access and more manageable for physicians. It also gave me the motivation to try to follow some of these recommendations before our healthcare system is taken over completely by corporate America. less

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