Health care disruptors must navigate treacherous regulatory waters
This week 23andMe, a popular and well-funded genetic testing start-up, received a warning letter from the FDA indicating its product is being classified as a […]
This week 23andMe, a popular and well-funded genetic testing start-up, received a warning letter from the FDA indicating its product is being classified as a […]
Nov 27, 2013
“People don’t want a quarter-inch drill, they want a quarter-inch hole.” -Theodore Levitt According to Harvard Professor Clayton Christensen, people hire products or services (like a […]
Nov 15, 2013
Devin Bean, a research assistant at the Clayton Christensen Institute, and I coauthored this piece. The Human Genome Project, launched in 1990, began with great promise. Its […]
Oct 17, 2013
Marketing professionals have for some time relied heavily on demographic data and sophisticated analytics to segment markets and predict demand. These methods can indicate strong […]
Oct 3, 2013
Netflix is often held up as a classic example of disruption. Netflix put Blockbuster out of business because it offered consumers a less expensive way […]
Oct 1, 2013
Devin Bean, a research assistant at the Clayton Christensen Institute, and I coauthored this piece. It is based on a report by the Clayton Christensen Institute titled, “Seize the ACA: […]
Sept 26, 2013
Patient is a very appropriate word to use to describe consumers of health care. The term derives from both Greek and Latin words meaning ‘one […]
Sept 11, 2013
Last week Bakul Patel, an FDA senior policy advisor, highlighted the agency’s recent move to issue voluntary interoperability standards for medical devices. The changes include […]
Aug 15, 2013
Devin Bean, a research assistant at the Clayton Christensen Institute, and I coauthored this piece. In 2005, Rand Corporation projected widespread use of electronic health records (EHRs) […]
Aug 8, 2013
Jeff Wheeler, an intern at the Clayton Christensen Institute, and I coauthored this piece. If you’ve visited a Walgreens recently you may have noticed something […]
Aug 1, 2013