The Innovator’s Prescription: An Examination of the Future of Healthcare through the Lenses of Disruptive Innovation

Much of today’s dialogue on health care reform centers on how to pay for the cost of health care in the future. A physician and author, Jason Hwang has devoted his life to caring for the public. His intellectually fearless and determined optimism brings remarkable trend-setting, solutions-oriented insights to the issues of healthcare reform.

During this presentation based on his upcoming book, “The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution to the Healthcare Crisis,” we get a sneak preview at the other half of the equation. Dr. Hwang will discuss how to innovate to reduce costs and improve the quality and accessibility of care. We don’t simply ask how we can afford health care. He will show how to make it affordable-less costly, and better in quality.

Hwang is an internal medicine physician and was previously a Harvard Business School Fellow at the consulting firm Innosight of Watertown, Massachusetts. Prior to that, he worked at the Health Horizons Program of the Institute for the Future, a think tank in Palo Alto, California and taught as a clinical instructor at the University of California, Irvine until 2004. Dr. Hwang has also worked with the Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group and the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Long Beach, California.

Dr. Hwang received his B.S. and M.D. from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, and he completed his internal medicine residency training at the University of California, Irvine, where he also served as Chief Resident from 2002-2003. He was awarded an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School in 2006.

Jason Hwang, MBA, MD co-author’s his new book with Clayton Christensen, professor at the Harvard Business School, and Jerome Grossman, director of the Harvard/Kennedy School Health Care Delivery Policy Program. The book is scheduled for release in September 2008 and is published by McGraw-Hill.