BSR Insight Articles About Health Care
How Wireless Technology Can Support Social Impact
Marshall Chase, Associate Director, Advisory Services
A new report by BSR and CTIA--the Wireless Association explores opportunities to use wireless services to support health care, financial inclusion, education, and community empowerment. Some of these opportunities include: * Mobile health: Health care workers can reach underserved areas by coordinating medical services, predicting disease outbreaks, and connecting patients to doctors. * Mobile finance: Mobile applications improve access to financial services for many of the 60 million unbanked and under-banked people in the United States and to billions more who live around the world. * Mobile education: Wireless applications encourage "anytime, anywhere" interactive learning. * Community empowerment: Wireless services can increase people's ability to connect with each other, their governments, and other institutions in effective ways. The report also explores the industry's challenges, including ensuring ethical supply chain labor, addressing concerns about privacy and freedom of expression, and providing consumer education about the opportunities and risks of using wireless services. Read more
Health Care’s New Definition of ‘Do No Harm’: An Interview with Gary Cohen, Founder, Practice Greenhealth and Health Care Without Harm
Chloë Poynton, Associate, Advisory Services, BSR and Gary Cohen, Founder and President, Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth
As Founder and President of Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth, Gary Cohen works with health care companies to promote the health of people and the environment. He spoke with us about why environmental issues are relevant to health care companies, how this sector can address these issues (and learn from other industries that have done the same), and why it's important to reframe climate change as a health challenge. "Do no harm" has long been used to guide the ethics of medical practitioners, but your organizations, Practice Greenhealth and Health Care Without Harm, have given that phrase new meaning. What are you hoping to accomplish through your work? Read more
Bringing Medicines to Low-Income Markets
Jessica Davis Pluess, Manager, Research
A new guide by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development outlines how pharmaceutical companies can use inclusive business models to tap the growing market for pharmaceuticals in developing countries and improve the lives of the 1.7 billion people who lack access to essential medicines. Read more
2012: Sustainability Steams Ahead in Uncertain Times
Aron Cramer, President and CEO
History moved fast in 2011, even as the economy was stuck in neutral, and 2012 promises to be a wild ride. Exactly how it will play out is hard to say. 2011 provides ample evidence of how difficult it is to foresee specific changes: Last January, few anticipated the Arab Spring, and Hosni Mubarak was ejected from office before the end of February. And early in 2011, any mention of the "Occupy Movement” was more likely to be considered a good name for a new indie rock band than one of the most potent political forces seen in years. Read more
Reflections From the BSR Conference 2011: We Have the Will—and the Power—to Act
Kara Hurst, Former Vice President
In his opening address at the BSR Conference 2011, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore talked about the “functional insanity” of CEOs and CFOs who choose short-term gains over long-term sustainability. He referenced a study in which these leaders were asked what they would do if they were given a chance to make an investment that would increase their company’s profitability and sustainability—with the catch being that they would miss their quarterly targets. Eighty percent said they would not make the investment. Read more
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