Bio
Dr. Jason Hwang is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Innosight Institute, a not-for-profit think tank devoted to applying the theories of disruptive innovation to problems in the social sector. Dr. Hwang coauthored The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care.

Dr. Hwang is an internal medicine physician and was a Harvard Business School Fellow at Innosight, a consulting firm based in Watertown, MA. Prior to that, he worked at the Health Horizons Program of the Institute for the Future, a think tank in Palo Alto, CA and taught as a clinical instructor at the University of California, Irvine. He has also worked with the Southern California Kaiser Permanente Medical Group and the VA Medical Center in Long Beach, CA.

Dr. Hwang received his B.S. and M.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of California, Irvine, serving as Chief Resident from 2002-2003. He earned an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School in 2006.

Talk Description
A disruptive innovation transforms an existing market or sector–or creates a new one–by introducing simplicity, convenience, and affordability. This talk will apply lessons of disruptive innovation from other industries to health care. The talk will examine: 1) precision medicine, the technological enabler of disruption in health care; 2) different business models and their applicability to health care; 3) existing (unsustainable) health care business models and improvement suggestions; 4) the role of new value networks in health care; and 5) which entities have the potential to lead the necessary changes.