Invention, innovation, entrepreneurship in academic medical centers.

摘要

Today's health cake providers deal with multiple complex and pressing problems including the aging population, an ever-increasing proportion of patients with chronic diseases, cancer deaths, childhood and adult obesity, escalating costs, regulatory interventions, and increasing responsibilities for patient safety. Health care innovation offers important promises to address many of these problems. In most of the developed world, academic medical centers are charged with treating patients and developing advances in health care. To meet this mandate, they should be poised to play a pivotal role in the process of introducing new ideas and practices.