Ultrasound Imaging - Cheap, Versatile, and Safe: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

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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Bhide, Amar and Datar, Srikant and Stebbins, Katherine, Ultrasound Imaging - Cheap, Versatile, and Safe: Case Histories of Transformational Advances (May 31, 2024). Harvard Business School Accounting & Management Unit Working Paper No. 20-003 (2019), Harvard Business School General Management Unit Working Paper No. 20-003, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3427400 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3427400