RealClear Health Op-Ed: Getting Medical Breakthroughs to Patients Faster

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The U.S. leads the world in developing biomedical innovations, but it often falls short in delivering them to patients. Unless we fix the breakdowns that keep our healthcare system from getting new innovations to patients, we’ll see a widening gap between what science and technology can create and what our healthcare system can deliver.

Authors Gigi Hirsch and Murray Aitken show how we can cut healthcare waste and inefficiency, and nurture a healthcare system that keeps pace with biomedical innovation, through coordinated approaches to system redesign—citing the urgency of the Alzheimer's epidemic as proof of the need and the success of Operation Warp Speed as proof of the potential for change.

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