Jane Xing is the Deputy Director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, China office. She has a fascinating view into the foundation’s activities in China, Asia, Africa and other places. Jane gave a great lecture to our students at Peking University Guanghua School of Management. This course is taught by myself and Jonathan Woetzel, […]
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Financial Innovation Can Make Markets Work for the Poor – Jane Xing, Gates Foundation, China (Video)
Jane Xing is the Deputy Director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, China office. She has a fascinating view into the foundation’s activities in China, Asia, Africa and other places. Jane gave a great lecture to our students at Peking University Guanghua School of Management. This course is taught by myself and Jonathan Woetzel, […]
“Innovation at the Bottom of the Pyramid” – Jane Xing, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, China office.
Jane Xing is the Deputy Director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, China office. She has a fascinating view into the foundation’s activities in China, Asia, Africa and other places. Jonathan Woetzel, my co-professor for this course and these videos, sat down with Jane and asked her about “innovation at the bottom of the […]
将私人医疗保险引进中国的三种选择(2/2)
在第一部分中,我论证了中国医疗保健行业的中心供求缺口正日益扩大这个问题。而私人医疗保险或许是解决这个问题的关键。 在本文中,我将展示在中国设立真正的私人医疗保险的三种模型。这些模型均已在其他地方实行,而且只需要在监管方面进行渐进式的改革。
中国医疗保健行业日益扩大的中心供求缺口(1/2)
私人医疗保险可以说是中国目前最大的、也是最恼人的机遇。这方面的需要显然存在。生活日渐富裕的中国消费者对公共医疗保健制度越来越感到失望。而立足未稳的私立医院正在努力寻找更大量、更稳定的收益流。
中国普通烟民是如何一步步变成“老烟枪”的
将全世界抽烟最多的6.5亿人口放到世界上污染最严重的城市,会发生什么?二十多年后又会如何呢? 如此,我们将得到2000万超级烟民。他们吸进的致癌物可能创人类历史记录。我把这群人叫做中国的“老烟枪”。 我是这么算的:
中国数字医疗陷入困境 直接接触消费者或是出路
过去六个月,企业家、风投资本家和互联网公司普遍陷入沉思:中国数字医疗出了什么问题。近年来创立和获得投资的数字医疗公司多达数千家,大获成功的案例却寥寥无几。
投资银行家如何拯救中国医院
在中国,成功事故总是层出不穷,而医院行业却是一大例外。私立医院大多为小型医院,并且很难赢得公众的信任。公立医院则陈旧不堪,令人仿佛回到1980年。尽管近年来大肆报道,但不论私立和公立医院都没有取得什么进步。在服务、成本和质量方面,几十年来中国医院几乎没有任何改观。
Why Chinese Families Are Flooding Into Foreign IVF & Fertility Services: An Interview with SCRC.
Medical tourism from China is surging. According to Ctrip (via a recent Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business report), there were over 500,000 outbound medical tourism trips from China in 2016, a 5x increase from 2015. And the average spending per trip was a stunning 50,000 RMB, more than 10x typical Chinese tourist spending. The […]
3 Options for Bringing Private Health Insurance to China (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 1 (located here), I argued that there is a growing supply-demand gap at the center of Chinese healthcare. And that private health insurance is likely the lynchpin in solving this problem. In this article, I lay out three models for launching reimbursement-style private health insurance in China. All three have worked in other […]