Following the release of their book, “Why Not Bet ter and Cheaper? Healthcare and Innovation,” Manatt Health National Advisor Robert Rebitzer and his twin brother, Boston University economist Jim Rebitzer, co-authored an article for STAT exploring the recent widespread adoption of hospital-at-home programs and how it demonstrates that innovations in health care can be more efficiently introduced and accepted given the appropriate circumstances and incentives.
In the article, the authors discussed the increased use of hospital-at-home programs that gained popularity as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, explaining that it is just one example of how the U.S. health care sector can experience a slow uptake of adopting valuable innovations. They noted, however, that it also serves as an example for how to manage this issue of lag in innovation, and discussed four ways hospital-at-home illustrates how to get innovation moving when adoption seems stalled. “Sometimes the complex and pluralistic U.S. health care system can be slow to innovate. In such cases, aligning incentives for all parties to participate fully may be just what is needed to get things moving,” they concluded.
Read the full STAT article here.
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