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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. In fact, this environment is the most disruptive I’ve witnessed in my 35 years in the health care industry. Carol Yepes/Getty Images.

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Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office

Harvard Business Review

Many health care organizations today are striving to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and to be rewarded for accomplishing both. Leading Change in Health Care. The Value Management Office promoted the development of shorter and more usable measuring instruments for collecting outcomes data by HSS researchers.

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Driving Front Line Innovation in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Stinson''s challenge is common at big organizations, but overcoming bureaucracy and breaking down silos is especially critical in healthcare. To tackle these obstacles at SickKids, CEO Mary Jo Haddad in 2010 elevated innovation to a "strategic direction," and engaged Innosight to help devise a full system needed to spur innovation.

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Big Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It

Harvard Business Review

In this context, "corporate catalysts" — entrepreneurially-minded people inside corporates — are working with corporations' resources, scale, and growing agility to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. Healthy Heart's first implant occurred in September 2010.

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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

Certainly, those transaction costs have to be balanced against the drag created by bloated bureaucracy, and the soul-crushing work that characterizes too many companies. In 2010, Embrace entered into a partnership with General Electric to help scale the technology around the globe. But it is a cost nonetheless.