Healthcare is a growing market for products and services, costs are rising especially in the developed world. Disruptive innovations enable transition; less-skilled people do more sophisticated things in lower cost settings. In healthcare they promise to allow non-consumers new treatments reducing healthcare inequalities and ultimately to reduce the cost of individual treatments. A UK study sho...

We study the effect of hospital market concentration on the quality of patient data protection practices. We use approximately 200 reported data breaches in US hospitals over the period 2006 2011 as a measure of the quality of patient data protection practices. We measure market concentration using the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI) and estimate our models by exploiting cross-sectional HHI va...

This article intends to consolidate the concepts of pharmaceutical market access and highlight its growing importance in emerging markets. Market access has gained considerable attention worldwide as countries try to contain their escalating healthcare expenditures amidst the global economic slowdown. This has resulted in governments adopting stricter measures for new product approval. Thus, ph...

Looking beyond the surface of what appears to be market-driven logic is an important business strategy, not only for record company producers but also for healthcare leaders. During the Healthcare Forum’s fifth Healthier Communities Summit, futurist Jeff Goldsmith, PhD, president of Health Futures, Inc., challenged healthcare leaders to adopt the vision and courage necessary to look beyond the ...

The international mobility of healthcare professionals is a well-documented phenomenon that has dynamic effects on global healthcare, labor markets, and the world economy. One aspect of this phenomenon—the movement of international medical graduates (IMGs) to the United States for residency training is often criticized because of the “brain drain” from their home countries. We propose a differe...

Anticompetitive conduct in the healthcare industry is often hard to detect, and has been ignored by some courts that appear to lack an understanding of managed care and its significance in maintaining price competition. These courts have adopted an approach that is far too historical and mechanistic, and is characterized by outdated factors analyzed in isolation from each other. In order to pre...

a s the U.S. healthcare system anticipates the requirements of legislated healthcare reform, front and center is the challenge of improving the U.S. healthcare value equation—the need to improve the value received for the health dollar spent. As is often the case, the psychology of change is at play here, whereby humans turn to what they know best as a response. As many health system leaders fa...

Persuasive messages for marketing healthcare services in general and coordinated care in particular are more important now for providers, hospitals, and third-party payers than ever before. The combination of measurement-based information and creativity may be among the most critical factors in reaching markets or expanding markets. The research presented here provides an approach to marketing ...