Today's health care providers deal with multiple complex and pressing problems including the aging population,
an ever-increasing proportion of patients with chronic diseases, cancer deaths, childhood
and adult obesity, escalating costs, regulatory interventions, and increasing responsibilities
for patient safety. Health care innovation offers important promises to address many
of these problems. In most of the developed world, academic medical centers are charged
with treating patients and developing advances in health care. To meet this mandate,
they should be poised to play a pivotal role in the process of introducing new ideas
and practices.
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November 19,
2007
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