Harvard Business Review Press has just published our book, Reverse innovation in health care: How to make value-based delivery work (HBR Press, 2018), which is available through Amazon for about $20 (hardcover).
The book's counterintuitive assertion is that rich countries like the US can benefit from innovations in poor countries like India, where huge demand coupled with severe shortages of medical expertise and equipment has led some of hospitals to achieve breakthrough innovations in health care delivery. These Indian hospitals are like the Fords and Toyotas of health care delivery. The bulk of the book profiles four US hospitals and startups that are already applying Indian-style practices to transform segments of the industry. Many more bottom-up initiatives of this kind could begin to fix the problems of US health care. The book can also be used in health care management courses.
A related article is "Transforming health care from the ground up" Harvard Business Review (July-Aug 2018). We welcome any comments and feedback.
Ravi Ramamurti
University Distinguished Professor of International Business & Strategy
Director, Center for Emerging Markets
Hayden 309, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Tel: (617) 373 4760; Email: r.ramamurti@neu.edu