Plan for the session this Saturday July 2, 2016

Innovation in health care in many ways

1.  Goals for Medical Entrep as envisioned by the program director, Dra Adolor

    Dra. Gloan Adolor the new program director of MBAH, MBAH grad and of this subject, had the following as the outputs needed for MBAH graduates:

    1. Spirituality

    2. Creative thinking

    3.  Critical and analytical thinkiing

  1,    For spirituality, we can achieve to do that skin deep through religious song, prayers before class (the groups must be doing this).  Spirituality is not about prayer or attending mass. It is about you and your creator and fellow men.

   Thus I have a kwento about the cousin of my wife, a medical doctor who just died.  She is 45 years old, married but childless.   She had myoma and succumbed from heart attack brought about by her chemo and other treatment.   She was eulogized by fellow doctors and priests whom she helped in their advocacies (medical missions) including scholarships for seminarians, and help to various parishes (financial) There were 9 priest who concelebrated the requiem mas for her..  Was there sprituality in her life.?

   2.  Creative thinking.  Dr. Sasa had SR on this.  There are attempts in the class to develop this by :  NU 10, reporting on various opportunities in  busy street, dry cooking,  and still undone activity, business opportunity on persons head.  Do we need more exercises?

   3.  Critical and Analytical thinking.    We are having practice set via Case Analysis.

2. Proposed activities:

    1.  Progress report by group leaders on the Business Plan of the Members.  We should be at the product portion all ready.

   2. SR  -  We should have at least 5.  There will be no class activity by July 9, because of 3d printing forum

  3.  Continuation of group presentation on crowded street opportunity.

  4.  Group presentations on micromarket study (comparison of two fast food establishments)

   4.  Red Crab case analysis  Group 3 in charge (Dr Kiko corrected me on this.  The post regrets the error

   5.  Report by Dr. Dom and Scientist Kim on 3d printing

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Innovating health care in many ways

Rizal Philippines
May 5, 2016

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It is an auspicious moment as I create this blog site for medical entrepreneurship.  I am readying this for my next assignment for teaching MBA -H  entrepreneurship subject for MDs and other health workers. I taught for about 4 batches of MDs and then it ended abruptly.  I could relate to MDs in teaching entrepreneurship because:  Lately, a former student who now heads the MBAH program  Dra Gloan Adolor requested me to teach the subject again despite being a senior citizen now.

Before materials and assignments of both MDs and non MDs were lumped together

This site will accept assignments, and where I would publish on line materials, references and more

 1.  I worked for five years as a drug representative and was associated with MDs for quite a while.  To pass as drug representative, you must pass basic medical knowledge and basic pharmacology.  To be able to detail a product, you must memorize your drug,  its price and pharmacology. I happened to work at division  of a large local drug company that had specialty products for physicians;

2.  I have a sister who is a physician who is working abroad;

3.  I wanted to be a doctor but early on, our family cant afford medical education.

4.   I have been doing a lot of work for MDs lately:  those who put diverse business and or doctors hospital.

I have been able to tweak the MBA syllabus to fit the doctors interest and experience.

Lately one of my interest is to lower health care cost (against what I earlier taught doctors to maximize revenues/opportunity seeking)   When two great medical center emerged especially in expensive sections of MM, health care costs shot sky high. Whatever happened to Hippocrates oath.

The local MDs and hsopitals followed US models of promoting interest of pharma and hospitals, How can we attend to the needs of majority of Filipinos who can not afford current health care costs, who will die without seeing a doctor in their lifetime