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After a 10 years dissecting and pondering on disruptive innovation, Clayton Christensen and two prominent doctors; Jerome Grossman, MD and Jason Hwang, MD, MBA wrote The Innovator’s Prescription (McGraw-Hill, 2009).

“Disruptive innovations, like we’ve seen in other industries, can bring complex and expensive health care products and services to greater levels of affordability and accessibility”-Hwang says.

Some issues presented by the author in this article and one of them are how disruptive technology and disruptive innovation can change and simplify our lives and the services that we received. This article present how new innovations can transform the complexity and reduced cost in health products and services making them more affordable and accessible. Health insurance plans play an important role in the acceptance stage.

Another concern is how open is our health care system, providers, staff, health plans into make and accept changes that are radical and will low cost to providers, hospitals and will transform the way in how the medicine is practice. How much capable are them in to managed and undertake the new ways in how health care services will be conduct in benefit of the consumers. How will the consumer value those changes, while taking into consideration: quality, cost, accessibility and savings.

Five disruptive innovations that are presented it in the article and explain in detail;

* Retail clinics

* Telemedicine

* Medical tourism

* Personalized medicine

* Point of Care payments

These are innovations that are today in our system, they will gain more adepts in the next decades and will change the way people receive services and those who provide the service will be compensate. It will make medicine more accessible, less costly and with more quality due to individualization. It will focus in making diagnosis more precise and treatment as well; minimizing high cost in diagnostic test and medications and utilizing...