1、Clinical entrepreneurship as a driving force for transformation ContentsClinical entrepreneurship as a driving force for transformation2Introduction 3What characterizes the clinical entrepreneur?5Moving beyond todays models 6Shaping a generation of clinical entrepreneurs 7 Culture 8 Programming,ment

2、orship,and community building 8 Incentives 9 Infrastructure and support for venture building 9Summary 10Case study:Sheba ARC 11Contacts 12Articles,podcasts,and research studies abound about the many challenges facing the health care industry.Issues like affordability,cost of care,and quality,continu

3、e to be tackled across entrenched industry players,startups,and out-of-industry actors such as retail,private equity,and venture capital.Years of traditional cost cutting have not delivered the savings and improvements in quality required at a time when health care affordability and improvements in

4、life expectancy are not materializing.What is needed now is greater innovation,accelerated adoption,and a deep focus on transforming health care.Clinicians are increasingly dissatisfied with the realization that their clinical role is to efficiently and repeatedly carry out certain tasks.1 Challenge

5、s encountered in clinical practice can stymie efforts to best deliver care and can become a significant source of frustration and concern.Some health care organizations have begun to support clinical entrepreneurship programs that assist physicians and other providers in developing novel solutions t

6、hat address persistent and meaningful problems that clinicians uniquely understand by virtue of their front-line experiences,sometimes resulting in commercialization opportunities that can deliver significant financial returns.While the skills associated with being an entrepreneur are not associated