Marketing Health Exchanges: Can Paul Bunyan and the Red Sox Help?
- Oct 09, 2013
- Public Policy
- North America
China’s Bitter Medicine for Foreign Drug Companies
- Sep 27, 2013
- Public Policy
- Asia-Pacific, China, Global Focus
The connected health movement -- a growing number of mobile apps, wireless devices and websites designed to bring patients together with health care providers -- is maturing, moving from technology[…]
‘Ticking Time Bombs’: China’s Health Care System Faces Issues of Access, Quality and Cost
- Jun 26, 2013
- Management
- Asia-Pacific, China
China's health care system is ailing, and the prognosis for a cure in the near future is not good. Wharton health care management professor Lawton R. Burns recently returned from[…]
Can New Delivery Models Help Fix India’s Health Care Woes?
- May 09, 2013
- Management
- Asia-Pacific, India
The statistics tell a stark tale: India's population is 1.2 billion and growing. The country has a GDP of US$1.85 trillion but health care spending is only about 5% of[…]
Reaching Out to Africa’s Poorest Heart Patients with Mobile Cardiology
- Apr 30, 2013
- Innovation
- Middle East & Africa
Cameroonian inventor Arthur Zang developed the Cardiopad, a mobile tablet that can perform ECGs, to enable better medical attention for rural heart patients in his country. Most simply don't get[…]
There’s cause for optimism about the future of health care, according to panelists who discussed the topic at the Wharton Economic Summit 2013. While the panelists agreed on the enormity[…]
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