Disruption is not different in any industry.Clayton apply disruptive theory in healthcare sector.3 major force, that we need to consider1.technology2.business model3.value network I would recommend Entrepreneur in health sector, Goverment people or politicians to read this book. So we can create health care not sick care for people.

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 Christensen 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 bein...

Perhaps it’s because I do strategy for a living, or perhaps it’s because I am a complete novice on healthcare, but I enjoyed Innovator’s Prescription better than any nonfiction book I’ve read in a very long time. Christensen and his colleagues do a superb job telling a complex story about a complex industry in a crisp and compelling way. Whether or not you agree with their predictions – and some of them you have no choice but to agree with, because less than a decade after publication, they’re h...

I found this book to be the single most enlightening piece on healthcare (economics/business/reform/strategy/etc.) I have come across. I highly recommend it, and I am quite surprised at how clear the many proposed ideas are and how I have heard little or nothing about most of them in the ongoing national debate on healthcare. Coherent business models have brought better and more affordable products and solutions to our lives in countless other fields, and Christensen deftly explains why healthca...

This is a great book on the challenges and some potential solutions with the healthcare system in America. If you're a leader in healthcare I recommend this highly. But this is also one of the best books on business, systems, and competition I've ever read. Warning: It's pretty technical, so if you don't know much about healthcare or aren't up for dense paragraphs, packed with both details and big ideas, then you won't enjoy this. This is not a fable or journalistic tour of an industry, full of

Thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, and it has aged well since its publication in 2009 (writing this review 10 years later, in 2019). Some of the terminology should be updated (and they should address ACOs).A few notes:1. "Jobs to be done" framework here works really well in the context of healthcare. Why does the patient hire a doctor? What are they trying to accomplish?2. Hospitals haven't aged well - they were originally set up for acute care. People were dying because of diseases that did

An excellent perspective on the state of America's healthcare system, with some great ideas on where to go from here. This book opened my eyes to some of the possible solutions to reducing overall healthcare costs and improving effectiveness of treatment.Though it took me a while (perhaps the whole book, really) to start thinking in the business lingo that Christensen writes in, I found it to be worthwhile to learn to think through. Overall I would highly recommend this book to anybody involved

Great read. Christensen and others make it clear it is not only technology enablers to make healthcare affordable and of a better quality. You also need other business models and value networks, combined with changes in pharmaceutical companies, medical education and regulation. Must read for healthcare innovators.

A great book for understanding the systemic issues in the healthcare industry

I will give this four stars ... but I am probably a bit high with that and Goodreads does not encourage or permit fractional ratings. The book is topical and sharply written, but it is also a bit odd, in that it is both too long, with lots of repetition, rehash, and digression, while at the same time being too short, in that many of the key caveats and limitations to what is presented are not spelled out.You hear Christensen’s name bandied out a lot, to the point where you would expect there to

Interesting and thought-provoking book. The authors provide a lot of great insights about the world of healthcare from the point of view of disruptive innovation. I don't share their optimism that high-deductible health plans will solve many of our problems (due to the fact that the people spending most of America's health care dollars will always exceed their deductible and thus face a zero price) but I do think their focus on integrated providers like Kaiser is appropriate. I was also quite de...

It took a bit for me to really get into this book--not sure why. But eventually, it started really clicking for me. The best thing for me was that I learned so much about our health care system--the good and the bad. Where it's broken, and how we've actually made amazing progress, and actually reduced costs in many areas. Also fascinated to hear someone else say what I've long thought, that we already have universal health care coverage in this country, though few recognize it, it's not called t...

Probably Professor Christensen’s most sweeping and densest works, which is fitting for a system as complex is our healthcare infrastructure. Not being in the weeds on the subject, I can’t speak to how well the book’s prescriptions actually work. I do believe Christensen reframed the forces at play in a clear, useful manner. I read it about a decade after it was published, and much of the vision in the book hasn’t come to pass in the timeframe it’s authors hoped for...it would be fascinating to u...

An interesting study of one model of how the US might change its healthcare system. I learned some things about our healthcare system (although I had most of the basics from reading An American Sickness) and I learned a lot about their theory of disruptive innovation, a business/economics concept I hadn’t read about before. The authors did a good job of explaining that theory (which is Christiansen’s own) in detail while carefully interweaving it with both healthcare and non-healthcare examples,...

This book describes the future of our healthcare system in the most evidence-based and insightful way possible. Everyone working in healthcare needs to read it. Christensen and his coauthors have studied our very complex healthcare system and then shown how it is following and will follow the same track as other technology-driven industries from a decentralized low tech industry to a centralized high tech industry and now moving back again to decentralization as the technology empowers people at...

Much food for thoughtThis was an excellent new perspective on the healthcare system. The authors have clearly dissected out the the current models under which we are functioning and well supported their arguments for disruption and change. A must read for anyone interested in healthcare policy or just better understanding the system

Good complement to Jonathan Bush's book, "Where does it hurt?"Recap of the Innovator's Dilemma: https://bothsidesofthetable.com/under...

Better than I expected. Imagine if health services were all about how to best support people? Also imagine if an equitable health system / equitable health outcomes was non-negotiable. This book only really covers the former. Sadly.

Almost 5 star worthy if it wasn't for its drier subject matter. For what it was - a book on healthcare policy - its was pretty well done! A surprisingly interesting read.

One of the best books I've ever read! It has a very a pragmatic and visionary approach. A must if you are in Healthcare IT.