title: Straighttalk. Creating a climate of innovation: the healthcare industry's biggest challenge. Panel discussion.
abstract: The U.S. health system is not sustainable as currently structured--innovation is necessary to fuel reform, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' report, HealthCast 2020: Creating a Sustainable Health System. But wide-scale innovation--which requires diverse players within the industry to collaborate--is difficult to achieve. In this installment of Straight Talk, leaders from WellPoint, Inc., one of the nation's largest health benefits companies, and FasterCures/The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions, a think-tank based in Washington, talk about what they're doing to nurture innovation.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Chin
authors.forename: Alice
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rosenblatt
authors.forename: Greg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Simon
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lauer
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000639:trends*; D009042:Motivation; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D014481:United States