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This issue draws insights about health challenges and opportunities from multiple countries. Together, the articles offer insightful pathways to seizing robust opportunities for building stronger healthcare systems. A thread that links these articles is the need for organizational innovations that break down national and international silos in health and healthcare. This is a challenging task, but one fully within the competence of existing healthcare and life sciences policy and commerce.

Looking ahead, please stay tuned for our special issue in December on bipartisan solutions to U.S. healthcare reform. Read more

Regi’s “Innovating in Health Care” Cases

“Regi”, aka Regina E. Herzlinger, is the Nancy McPherson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author of bestselling trade books on healthcare. “Regi’s ‘Innovating in Health Care’ Cases”, a regular HMPI feature, highlights teaching materials that focus on innovating across healthcare.

Our highlighted case in this issue, “Apple Health Records”, offers one step toward feasible integration, based on commercial innovation in electronic data systems. Read more

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