Ultrasound Imaging - Cheap, Versatile, and Safe: Case Histories of Transformational Advances
Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Working Paper No. 20-003 (2019)
Harvard Business School General Management Unit Working Paper No. 20-003
35 Pages Posted: 27 Jul 2019 Last revised: 12 Jun 2024
Date Written: May 31, 2024
Abstract
This case history describes how efforts on multiple fronts, including advocacy, training, and technological development, made ultrasound the second most commonly used diagnostic imaging technology (after X-rays). Specifically, we chronicle 1) ultrasound’s development and introduction in the 1950s and 1960s, 2) widespread adoption in the 1970s, and 3) innovations that sustained growth in the 1980s and 1990s.
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment, Technological Innovation, Innovation Strategy, Technology Adoption, Collaborative Innovation and Invention, Innovation and Invention, Governing Rules Regulations and Reforms
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