{"id":121,"date":"2004-03-21T18:55:11","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T18:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2004-03-21T18:55:11","modified_gmt":"2004-03-21T18:55:11","slug":"health_care_cost_saving_idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Health Care Cost Saving Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.claytonchristensen.com\/biography.html\">Clayton Christensen<\/a>, a Harvard professor who studies disruptive innovations recently discussed an idea to <a href=\"http:\/\/sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2004\/03\/21\/BUG395O9K81.DTL\">reduce health care costs for many typical patient requests<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Christensen nailed it on the head when he said this is an industry in desperate need of disruption. In its current state, a gross amount of overhead costs prepare hospitals and doctors to treat the most complex illnesses known to mankind.<br \/>\nIn reality, most people need a quick look and a prescription. Christensen talked about a new business model coming out of Minnesota as the perfect disruptor for medicine.<br \/>\nBecause Minnesota allows nurses to write prescriptions, the idea would be to create medical drop-in sites that treat 14 primary illnesses. Everything from strep throat to &#8220;burn your warts off.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe flat rate for a checkup and &#8216;scrip is $29. If it takes more than 15 minutes, it&#8217;s free.<br \/>\nThis is what you and I want, right? No long wait on the phone. No huge bills for a simple checkup. Quick and easy, in and out.<br \/>\nThis would provide an alternate product to consumers and make going to a big ol&#8217; HMO with a sore throat an unacceptable hassle for most consumers.<br \/>\nChristensen is suggesting this model to the Johns Hopkins hospitals in Maryland as a way for them to build their brand, embrace a disruptive force to come and give their patients what they want.<br \/>\nThe Baltimore medical giant is reticent, he says, which is a typical response from an existing business reluctant to embrace disruption. &#8220;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clayton Christensen, a Harvard professor who studies disruptive innovations recently discussed an idea to reduce health care costs for many typical patient requests: &#8220;Christensen nailed it on the head when he said this is an industry in desperate need of disruption. In its current state, a gross amount of overhead costs prepare hospitals and doctors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}