Bridging Health Care’s Innovation-Education Gap

Graduate health care programs must revamp their curricula to address the need for innovation.

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Kevin A. Schulman

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Kevin A. Schulman

November 11, 2014

Despite the excellence of its delivery, insurance, and technology components, the health care sector in the United States is plagued with sky-high costs, unequal access, and erratic quality. This predicament continues to create a major drag on the U.S. economy.

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Regina Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.
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Vasant Kumar Ramaswamy is founder and CEO of Scriplogix, a health care market-research and information-services company, and a former economist at the World Bank.
Kevin A. Schulman, M.D., MBA, is a professor of medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine and a professor of business administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. He also holds appointments at the Center for Health Services Research in Primary Care in the Durham VA Medical Center, the Duke Center for Clinical Health Policy Research, and the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities and History of Medicine.

Bridging Health Care’s Innovation-Education Gap

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