title: Disruptive innovation: the demand side.
abstract: The notion of disruptive innovation provides a welcome framework for considering the prospects for low-cost alternatives in American medicine. Such innovations as have been seen, however, are largely the result of demand by patients paying their own bills because they have high-deductible coverage or are uninsured. Many other cost-saving innovations are discouraged by financing systems that are themselves largely immune to competition from disruptive innovators.
authors.affiliation: Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA. HAV@law.duke.edu
authors.forename: Clark C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: Havighurst
mesh_terms: D017046:Cost Savings; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000458:organization & administration; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D014481:United States