About Us
MD Anderson has led the world as an innovator in cancer care delivery since its inception in 1944. With a focus on research-driven cancer care, MD Anderson was one of the three original comprehensive cancer centers in the 1970s. In the 1990s, MD Anderson pioneered the concept of patient-centered multidisciplinary care that delivered patient-centered clinical trials in care centers organized around the patient’s cancer condition and not around traditional medical specialties. In the 2000s, MD Anderson again innovated new methods of delivering personalized cancer therapy to the over 33,000 new patients it sees annually.
The Institute is located in the John Mendelsohn Faculty Center at
MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation has its origins in work done with Harvard Business School’s Professor Michael Porter, who champions the principles of value-based health care as the cornerstone to reforming health care delivery worldwide. Defining value in health care as the balance of the outcomes of care with the costs to deliver the care, value-based health care is becoming an international movement with broad appeal to patients, providers and payers. The partnership between MD Anderson and the Harvard Business School led to projects related to measuring and reporting the outcomes of our care as well as innovative programs examining what outcomes are important to our patients. As an offshoot of that research, the Institute is developing approaches to engage patients in their care through self-reported outcomes that become part of a shared electronic medical record. In conjunction with Harvard’s Professor Robert Kaplan, the Institute is an international leader using an innovative method measuring the true costs of cancer care delivery known as time-driven activity-based costing. Widely used in many industries, the method is now the subject of research done at MD Anderson through the Institute, representing some of the first applications of time-driven activity-based costing in health care and the first in cancer care delivery.
