Managing Health-care Related Innovation Programs

Source: LDI Health Economist, October 23, 2012; Knowledge at Wharton, November 6, 2012 David Asch was one of four Penn experts to participate in a roundtable discussion about the management of health-care related innovation programs. Asch pointed out that “innovation in a health care setting is a highly disciplined enterprise involving scientific rigor, testing and implementation.” As executive director of the Penn Medicine Center for Innovation, Asch’s vision begins with a focus on how proven techniques from other fields may offer solutions not obvious to traditional clinical thinking.