[PDF][PDF] Will disruptive innovations cure health care?

CM Christensen, R Bohmer… - Harvard business …, 2000 - hospital360.achc.org.co
Imagine a portable, low-intensity X-ray machine that can be wheeled between offices on a
small cart. It creates images of such clarity that pediatricians, internists, and nurses can
detect cracks in bones or lumps in tissue in their offices, not in a hospital. It works through a
patented “nanocrystal” process, which uses nightvision technology borrowed from the
military. At 10% of the cost of a conventional X-ray machine, it could save patients, their
employers, and insurance companies hundreds of thousands of dollars every year. Great …