Hospitals
As Hurricane Sandy ravaged the East Coast last fall, knocking out power in half of Manhattan and even at New York University's Langone Medical Center, Stephen Rudy found himself in the dark. Yet, when the power went out, Rudy wasn't at home in Brooklyn. He was in Uganda at a 300-patient hospital...
At a time when "medical innovation" often is associated with dramatic pharmaceutical advances, complex imaging equipment, and other high-tech wonders, students at Stanford are also looking for innovation at the other end of the spectrum: relatively simple, low-cost modifications to existing health...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — She was a sometime prostitute and sometime cigarette vendor living in the African nation of Sierra Leone who got beaten unconscious in the street by an intoxicated off-duty police officer. He’d demanded and received cigarettes on credit, but became enraged...
The current entrepreneurial enthusiasm for innovation in health care is likely to continue regardless of the political fate of the Affordable Care Act, one of the nation's top doctors told a Stanford audience recently.
Jack Cochran, the executive director of the Permanente Federation, the umbrella...
STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS — As a medical resident three decades ago, Bill Frist came to the Stanford Medical Center to work with famed heart-transplant surgeon Norman Shumway because Frist’s superiors at Massachusetts General felt transplanting hearts was too expensive. Today,...
Medical technology is one of the foundations of the American health care system. It is home to dramatic technical advances. But it is one of the key contributors to rising health care costs, accounting for, according to one study, roughly half the increase in health spending. Issues such as these...