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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. The ramifications for traditional care providers typically dominated by hospitals is going to be big and may happen fast. Carol Yepes/Getty Images. But back to the insurers.

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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. Most have begun this journey with pilot projects to obtain valid measures of outcomes and cost for one or two medical conditions. Insight Center.

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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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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.

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Big Companies Can Unleash Innovation, Rather than Shackle It

Harvard Business Review

The Healthy Heart program seeks to bring pacemaker technology to hundreds of thousands of Indians who desperately need it. In late 2010 I visited The Mission Hospital (TMH) in Durgapur, a modest town by Indian standards (population about 1 million), nestled in India's northeast corner, near Bangladesh.