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Current s+b Issue

s+b’s coverage spans the entire range of topics that affect the healthcare industry, from payors and providers to the pharmaceutical industry and biotech. Articles include analyses of healthcare-reform initiatives, trends in medical benefits, and national healthcare costs, as well as specific topics such as health spending accounts, pharmacies, hospitals, and healthcare industry business models.

Healthcare

The Faster New World of Healthcare

by Carl Dumont, Ashish Kaura, and
Sundar Subramanian

Regulatory reform and IT advances are accelerating the “clockspeed” in healthcare. To compete, insurers will need to focus on three key areas.

Big Pharma’s Uncertain Future

by Alex Kandybin and Vessela Genova

The business model that drove the major drugmakers’ success isn’t working anymore, and their very future is in doubt. The survivors will be those that make smart strategic bets supported by winning capabilities.

Five Steps Toward
a Revitalized
Pharmaceutical
Supply Chain

by Marcus Ehrhardt, Robert Hutchens, and
Susan Higgins

Global drug companies are facing their greatest disruption in decades. Today’s remedy may come, not from the labs, but rather from pharma’s manufacturing and operations footprint.

Transforming Healthcare Delivery

by Joyjit Saha Choudhury, Akshay Kapur, and
Sanjay B. Saxena

As nations seek to expand services more cost-effectively, the stakeholders who pay the bills and provide the care must collaborate.

Global Lessons for Controlling Healthcare Costs

Health insurers are reaching beyond national borders for more effective medical management strategies.

IT Road Maps for IT Transformation

A conversation with Aetna Executive Vice President Meg McCarthy.

The Missing Link in Innovative Research

When the pipeline of technological breakthroughs has stalled, especially in industries like pharmaceuticals, midlevel managers may hold the key to R&D productivity.

Getting Big by Going Small

Francois Nader, CEO of NPS Pharmaceuticals, describes how a new model for biotech brought his company back from the brink.

Health Insurance Gets Personal

As reform legislation makes the U.S. healthcare industry more consumer-centric, companies will need to change their business models and add new capabilities.

When Disruptive Integration Comes to Health Care

For The Innovator’s Prescription coauthor Jason Hwang, the real solution to health-care costs lies in the business models that incumbent companies have not yet embraced — but can no longer ignore.

The Pharmacy Solution

As the market for basic health care expands, pharmacy chains will increasingly be called upon to provide simple medical services.

A Better Model for Health Care

An innovative experiment in Florida shows the potential for more systemic collaboration as the catalyst for lower costs and improved quality.

Does Health Care Have an Electronic Future?

The Obama administration’s focus on digital patient records to minimize medical errors and improve efficiency has promise, but will face significant obstacles.

William Haseltine: The Thought Leader Interview

A molecular biologist and entrepreneur sees green as the next wave of the genomic revolution.

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