KevinMD October 7, 2023
Plenty has been written and said about how health care in the United States is too convoluted to be disrupted by new entrants. Dan Munro, health care author, and Forbes contributor compiles most of the rationales provided by thought leaders in his 2018 article titled “10 Reasons Healthcare Won’t Be Disrupted.” While traditional health care systems carried on with some air of certainty, would-be disruptors continued to make advances, and five years later, they have solidly taken over health care’s low-end market. They are coming for the upmarket, and traditional health care systems must set up their command centers now.
Clayton Christensen, professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, laid out the tenets of disruptive innovation: First, the entrants...