Recent legislative and policy actions open the door to disruption in health care

In The Washington Post, Vineeta Vijayaraghavan and Clayton Christensen write about the impact of recent changes that enable more disruption in care delivery: Health-care changes signal much-needed shift       Share this article Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg StumbleUpon Add to favorites Email RSS

Jason Hwang declares that “Innovation is Alive and Well in Health Care”

On CNBC.com, Jason Hwang writes about innovative care delivery models that could represent a blueprint for transforming our health care system. Read more at http://www.cnbc.com/id/44905039 Share this article Facebook Twitter Delicious Digg StumbleUpon Add to favorites Email RSS

Vineeta Vijayaraghavan and Clayton Christensen offer their commentary on the state of electronic medical records after the closure of Google Health.

It may seem that the viability of electronic health records looks dismal after the failure of Google Health, yet in integrated health systems around the country they have been implemented and utilized by patients. In Google’s failure we must see an opportunity to address the fragmentation of our healthcare system and take notice of those health [...]

Horn, Mackey author piece about how to implement National Education Technology Plan

In a special issue titled “The US National Education Technology Plan – Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by Technology” in E-Learning and Digital Media, Innosight Institute’s Michael B. Horn and Katherine Mackey have a piece discussing how to see that the vision articulated in the recently released National Educational Technology Plan becomes a reality. To [...]

Disrupting college: How disruptive innovation can deliver quality and affordability in postsecondary education

Higher education is in crisis across the nation. America’s colleges and universities are strapped for resources, students and families are faced with eye-popping tuition increases, and we are falling behind other developed nations in postsecondary attainment. At the Center for American Progress on February 8, 2011, Clayton Christensen and I unveiled our latest work about [...]

The Politics of Health: Rating for a Change

Darius Tahir, Vineeta Vijayaraghavan, and Jason Hwang provide commentary on the potential impact of physician ratings systems in ADVANCE Web’s “The Politics of Health Care” blog on January 5, 2011. They conclude: “Beyond the fear and uncertainty that accompany such significant change is the fact that we need a health care system that better aligns [...]

Transform education with digital learning

Former governors Jeb Bush and Bob Wise along with Innosight Institute Executive Director, Education Michael B. Horn authored a piece in The Hill titled, “Transform education with digital learning.” The piece discusses the recent release of the Digital Learning Council’s recommendations to transform American education into a student-centric system with digital learning at its core. [...]

Health insurance rate wars: are we focused on the right fight?

Clayton M. Christensen and Darius Tahir authored a piece for the Huffington Post that appeared on July 16, 2010 titled, “Health Insurance Rate Wars — Are We Focused on the Right Fight?” In it, the authors argue that rate increases are in fact the last symptom of the disease afflicting the health care system, not [...]

Education as we know it is finished

Innosight Institute cofounders Clayton M. Christensen and Michael B. Horn authored a provocatively headlined piece in Forbes titled “Education As We Know It Is Finished: Classrooms are giving way to online learning–forever.” In the piece, we argue that budget cuts will force schools to make some serious changes this summer and in the future–and as [...]

The new classroom: online education and charter schools

Innosight Institute’s chairman, Gisele Huff, has an op-ed in The Hill’s Congress Blog. In the piece, titled “The new classroom: online education and charter schools,” Dr. Huff argues that the dominant path of education reform over the last couple decades is unlikely to produce the transformation we need and instead more and more people interested [...]