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Join us for an engaging exploration of innovation in healthcare and why it matters for patients and society, with authors James and Robert Rebitzer
The healthcare system generates the wrong kinds of innovation. It's too easy to profit from low-value innovations and too hard to profit from innovations that reduce the costs of care. The result is a healthcare system that is profusely innovative yet remarkably ineffective in discovering ways to deliver increased value at lower cost.
Bringing together research on incentives, social norms, and market competition, the authors of Why Not Better and Cheaper? shed new light on the trajectory of innovation in healthcare, and how to steer innovation towards more effective and affordable solutions.
James B. Rebitzer is the Peter and Deborah Wexler Professor at Boston University's Questrom School of Business where he was founding chair of the department of Markets, Public Policy, and Law. Formerly, he was the Mannix Professor of Healthcare Finance and Economics and Chair of the Economics Department at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western University. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). James has received The Health Care Research Award from the National Institute of Health Care Management and the Kenneth J. Arrow Award from the International Health Economics Association.
Robert S. Rebitzer, former COO of Stanford University's Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC), advises health systems, academic medical centers, health insurers, government, and philanthropies on ways to improve the quality and lower the cost of healthcare. He is a senior advisor at Manatt Health and a Distinguished Career Institute Fellow at Stanford University. Formerly, he was a partner in the healthcare strategy practice of Accenture and a Vice President of UnitedHealth Group. He has also served as an advisor to the California Healthcare Foundation. He is currently chairman of the board of El Camino Health System.
Moderated by Seth Rodgers, Licensing Manager, Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing (OTL)
In-person event open to Stanford faculty, students, staff, and affiliates. Zoom attendance open to the general public.