title: Lessons from India in organizational innovation: a tale of two heart hospitals.
abstract: Recent discussions in health reform circles have pinned great hopes on the prospect of innovation as the solution to the high-cost, inadequate-quality U.S. health system. But U.S. health care institutions-insurers, providers, and specialists-have ceded leadership in innovation to Indian hospitals such as Care Hospital in Hyderabad and the Fortis Hospitals around New Delhi, which have U.S.-trained doctors and can perform open heart surgery for $6,000 (compared to $100,000 in the United States). The Indian success is a window into America's stalemate with inflating costs and stagnant innovation.
authors.affiliation: Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina, USA. barak.richman@duke.edu
authors.forename: Barak D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Richman
authors.forename: Krishna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Udayakumar
authors.forename: Will
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Mitchell
authors.forename: Kevin A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Schulman
mesh_terms: D002300:Cardiac Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013502:General Surgery / Q000458:organization & administration; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D057193:Medical Tourism; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States