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Water

Water Thinking

The Peer Water Exchange manages diverse solutions and resources to fight the global water crisis.

By Rajesh Shah | 13 | Fall 2011
 
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Health

Foundations as Investors

Social investors are experimenting with a profusion of creative funding mechanisms to help innovators sustain health-improving approaches and to achieve greater impact.

By John Goldstein & Margaret Laws | 1 | Fall 2011
 
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Impact Investing

Investing for the Safety Net

Technologies that reduce costs and improve care for the underserved are often the most difficult to scale up. But a handful of strategies could turn things around.

By Stefanos Zenios & Lyn Denend | Fall 2011
 

Health

Undisclosed Pharma Contributions

Most health advocacy organizations do not report industry funding.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Fall 2011
 
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Health

Reinventing Health Care Services

A doctor describes his groundbreaking, transdisciplinary effort to design more cost-effective care models for conditions that drive a large proportion of US health spending.

By Arnold Milstein | Fall 2011
 
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Health

Government 2.0

Thanks to Todd Park, a federal agency has discovered that health care organizations can think more like nimble startups than like lumbering giants.

By Carleen Hawn | Fall 2011
 

Health

Perspectives from the Field

Two venture capitalists and an entrepreneur discuss the challenges and opportunities that innovators confront as they seek to improve health care.

By Lisa Suennen, William Rosenzweig, & Chaim Indig | Fall 2011
 
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Water

Spring Water Protection Improves Health

Living near safe drinking water is not the same as drinking safe water.

By Jessica Ruvinsky | Fall 2011
 
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Health

Framing the Issue

The CEO of the California HealthCare Foundation and the managing director of Versant Ventures provide an introduction to innovations for better health care at lower cost.

By Mark Smith & Barbara Lubash | 1 | Fall 2011
 

Health

Doctor in Your Pocket

New and valuable mHealth apps are coming out all the time. What sort of open architecture can support this wave of innovation?

By Jessica Ruvinsky | 1 | Summer 2011