title: Takingabigrisk.com. Execs chuck high-powered hospital jobs for e-venture.
abstract: Impatient with the industry's slow transition to quality improvement, an unusual group of former healthcare executives--including a canine deputy--is trying to establish a high-powered Internet venture from bargain-basement digs. The entrepreneurs, with visions of an IPO dancing in their heads, want to give providers and patients access to the information they need to improve health outcomes.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hensley
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D016520:Entrepreneurship; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006740:Hospital Administrators; D020407:Internet; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States