4. Of the more than $4 trillion the world expends
on health care each year, close to 60 percent is
spent on the clinical workforce - the doctors,
nurses, pharmacists, and other professionals
who provide patient care.
Source
https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Health_Care/Strategy_Analysis/Managing_the_clinical_workforce_2467
7. 4 advantages of pharmacies
Advantage # 1: Trust
Advantage # 2: Access
The pharmacist is highly accessible.
Advantage # 3: Skills and services
Advantage # 4: Cost
Pharmacy-based retail clinics could often treat
patients at a lower cost than physicians’ offices
could for the same conditions.
Source: http://www.strategy-business.com/article/10103?pg=all
15. Cough into your mobile phone
for instant diagnosis
Source
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6530704/Cough-into-your-mobile-phone-for-instant-diagnosis.html
18. Cloud computing / open platforms
can help save $400 million per drug
Source: http://www.bcg.com/documents/file34246.pdf
19. We believe open innovation will fuel the intellectual
entrepreneurship and novel collaborations across
institutions and geographies needed to develop
solutions to some of the world's most critical healthcare
challenges and to directly address patient needs in
both developed and emerging economies.
In turn, these solutions will provide the economic
entrepreneurship that will help spur recovery and,
when combined with health diplomacy, will ensure that
innovation delivers solutions for generations to come.
Source:
Dr. Paul Schoeffels, company group chairman of pharmaceutical research and development
at Johnson & Johnson.
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/02/02/collaborative_innov
ation_for_the_post_crisis_world/