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Connected Strategy in the Healthcare Industry
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Model Homes: Evaluating Approaches to Patient-centered Medical Home Implementation
The PCMH model has significant impact on patterns of health care utilization, especially when heterogeneity in implementation is accounted for in program evaluation.…Read More
Interdisciplinary Teams Compete in Wharton Innovation & Design Club’s Coronavirus Innovation Challenge
The annual healthcare innovation challenge asked student teams to consider how to better connect groups with limited online presence to essential healthcare/vaccine services, given the impacts of COVID-19?…Read More
Y-Prize Winner Avisi Technologies Receives $1M Grant
The company, cofounded by Wharton alumni, will use the National Science Foundation award to continue pursuing its innovative glaucoma treatment.…Read More
Innovation Pathways: Financial Services Takeaways Transfer to Healthcare
Social policy graduate student Linya Liu explains why she aimed to outperform delivery expectations during Mack Institute’s Collaborative Innovation Program.…Read More
Private Equity and Productivity in U.S. Healthcare
Private equity (PE) investment in U.S. healthcare has increased dramatically in recent years. …Read More
M&A, Competition, and Innovation in Medical Technology
Innovation in medical technology has played a large role in the growth in welfare benefits and monetary costs due to health care over the last half century. Like many industries that rely on innovation, medical technology has an active market for corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A). …Read More
Leveraging Data to More Efficiently Predict the Efficacy of Medical Treatments in New Spaces
This proposal requests research funding for the development of two papers that propose novel methods for leveraging large amounts of imprecise information along with small amounts of specific information to improve the efficacy of medical treatment. …Read More
Physician-Industry Interactions: Persuasion and Welfare
In markets where consumers seek expert advice regarding purchases, firms seek to influence experts, raising concerns about biased advice. We combine a model of supply and demand with a local instrumental variables strategy based on regional spillovers from academic medical center conflict-of-interest policies. …Read More
The Impact of Acquisitions on Clinical Decisions: Evidence from Physician Practice Management Companies
Mergers and acquisitions are rapidly transforming the organization of physician services in the United States, raising concerns over the cost and the quality of health care. This paper studies how medical practice acquisitions by Physician Practice Management Companies (PPMCs) impact physician behavior and patient health.…Read More
Regulating Innovation with Uncertain Quality: Information, Risk, and Access in Medical Devices
We study the impact of regulating product entry and quality information requirements on an oligopoly equilibrium and consumer welfare. Product testing can reduce consumer uncertainty, but also increase entry costs and delay entry. …Read More
Doctor: Virtual Reality Training Leads to Big Performance Boost for Surgeons
Dr. Justin Barad, of Osso VR, explained how doctors can use the platform to learn and practice procedures amid the health care innovation boom.…Read More
Bringing it All Together to Lower Healthcare Costs
Zipari founder Mark Nathan explains why providing consumers more information is key to bringing down healthcare costs in the U.S., and lays out the team-oriented approach he takes to innovation in his company.…Read More
Drawing a Collaborative Road Map for Healthcare Innovations
James Lewis of 11|TEN Innovation Partners explains how his organization facilitates collaboration to accelerate the development of new healthcare technologies.…Read More
Innovation Pathways: Austin Deng Works at a ‘Startup’ in a Large Company
Johnson & Johnson’s Austin Deng identifies opportunities in connected healthcare, sensors/wearables, and digital health.…Read More
For Stroke Patients, New Video Game May Help Restore More Function, Faster
John Krakauer, co-founder of Neuro Motor Innovations, describes how his company is testing specially designed video games to help stroke patients recover more fully.…Read More
An Experiment to Enhance Narrative Feedback to Improve Quality of Health Care
This project consists of a field experiment to assess a two-stage intervention intended to enrich healthcare professionals’ learning from patient experiences, as recounted in patients’ own words.…Read More
Leapfrogging for Last-Mile Delivery in Health Care
Lowering the cost and increasing the speed of last mile delivery are major challenges for the distribution channels of most industries. These challenges are even more severe in developing countries, where a large part of the population is located in rural areas, and where the lack of physical infrastructure results in a sizable part of the population residing in isolated areas, compromising their access to important services for their investment in human capital, such as timely health care.…Read More
Technological Innovations for Last-Mile Delivery in Health Care
We propose to study the impact of technological innovations in last-mile delivery on health care access, cost, and quality. To this end, we will examine the introduction of drones to deliver blood and other medical supplies to isolated areas in Rwanda.…Read More
Former Apple CEO John Sculley Predicts How Technology Will Change Health Care
Entrepreneur and investor John Sculley (WG’63) sees fewer hospital beds and invasive procedures, and more sensors and digital voice assistants.…Read More