Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. The Future of Health Care. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

First, they are responsible for contributing a large chunk of patients into the health care system, especially in developed countries like the US. All of our new policies and efforts to provide affordable health care could pale in comparison to the exponentially rising costs associated with these diseases and their demographics.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. health care keeps getting costlier. These astronomical costs are largely due to the way competition works in American health care. Transforming Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The Future of Health Care. Creating better outcomes at reduced cost. Established in 2010, it engages mid and senior-level women identified as strong leadership candidates in a two-day program aimed at boosting their careers. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

More and more providers are now being held accountable for the cost of care in addition to quality. It is critical to have physicians intimately involved in these efforts, yet hospitals and health systems struggle to engage them in improving care. Leading Change in Health Care. Insight Center. Department.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. Reducing the rate at which health care costs grow, and the proportion of U. health system grew by nearly 75%.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Many communities in emerging markets receive their front-line primary health care from community health care workers. In South Africa, for instance, 50 percent of all health care providers are community workers. In fact, Vodafone spun out the work through the creation of a Mobile Health Unit in January 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 1980, the national expenditure on health care in the United States was just over 9% of Gross Domestic Product. According to data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, workers’ earnings rose by 47% from 1999 to 2012, but their contribution to health insurance premiums during that time went up by 180%.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

we fret that our health care system costs too much. But, given the structure of health insurance, the question should not be “Why are prices so high?” ” Patients are protected by insurance from most of the costs of the care they select and have no reason to shop for the best price.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Many health care organizations today are striving to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and to be rewarded for accomplishing both. Most have begun this journey with pilot projects to obtain valid measures of outcomes and cost for one or two medical conditions. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Women on Business

JULY 12, 2012

This became very important after the 2010 earthquake devastated the country. The US Department of Health and Human Services found that worksites with physical activity programs have 20 – 55% reduced health care cost, reduced short term sick leave by 6-32%, and increased productivity by 2 – 52%.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Understanding the implementation plans for the health care law passed in 2010 is a complicated job for even the most seasoned policy wonks. The tumult puts the broader role of the employer as conduit to health care benefits into new context — and by most accounts in the midst of a sea change.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Many of the provisions of the sweeping health-care bill passed by the House of Representatives in March won’t kick in until 2014, however these provisions spell big changes for small businesses. Health insurance costs for small businesses increased from 1999 to 2007. Unfortunately, few expect a change in the 9.6

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

health care are Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) — networks of doctors, hospitals and usually payers banded together to rein in costs by providing higher quality, better coordinated care, with primary care doctors central to the process. Among the current remedies for U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

When it comes to health care costs, America’s employers are at a crossroads. That means that to control costs going forward, employers may have to confront the true underlying causes of rising health care expenditures: high prices and health care inefficiencies. The Future of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The Patient Support Corps seeks to change that by giving patients the tools to make more-informed choices about their care. The idea of patient navigators is a relatively recent phenomenon in health care. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

Despite spending twice what other developed nations spend on a per capita basis for health care, the United States has a longstanding trend of having lower life expectancy, greater prevalence of chronic disease, and overall poorer health outcomes. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Whether President Obama's health reform law lives or dies after next week's Supreme Court decision, it won't alter the dire fact that employee health costs have exploded to become the third-largest expense in business today, undermining the financial health of thousands of companies. About 22 percent of firms in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Those trends are: • Ubiquitous low-cost communications. Virtually unlimited low-cost bandwidth. Virtually unlimited, low-cost, real-time data processing power. Look as well to health care. A great deal of the argument made in 2010 by those in favor of U.S. Rapid technological and competitive innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics. The Launch.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2011

That's one in four jobs, making retail the largest private sector employer, dwarfing the numbers seen in major fields such as manufacturing and health care. NRF is working to fix or repeal the provisions in the 2010 health care reform law that are hostile to the future of the retail industry. Retail contributes $2.5

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Health care systems are transforming themselves to deliver the “Triple Aim” of providing better care and a better patient experience, improving the health of populations, and lowering the cost of care. Mayo was the first care-delivery group to receive this delegated authority. Authority and Structure.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

competitiveness strikes a pessimistic tone about certain demographic facts — the education gap between young people and the jobs which are and will be available, the aging of the American population, and the related rise in health care costs. The March issue of HBR on U.S. in Italy and Spain.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The report also highlighted that companies across many sectors, such as manufacturing and health care, have captured less than 30% of the potential from their data and analytics investments. Further, the cost of artificial intelligence talent is coming down as the supply of trained professionals increases.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The apparent business model of Big Pharma emphasizes the billions spent at great risk to find "innovative" and "breakthrough" new molecules that must be priced high to recover research costs that have become "unsustainable." However, revenues have increased six times more than their increased costs for research—hardly "unsustainable."

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Cipla, an India-based producer of low cost antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) is one of the biggest success stories in the pharma industry. For example, the $28 million acquisition of Meditab in 2010 provide formulation skill as well as production and marketing expansion in China and Uganda, while the acquisition of ?laç laç Ticaret Anonim ?irketi

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. area health care market has indeed shifted.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2014

Creative destruction carries transaction costs. 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. But it is a cost nonetheless. People lose their jobs. Cities dependent on a large employer suffer.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. Leading Change in Health Care. After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010. With an accountable care organization (ACO).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

In my last post , I argued that companies can't keep their costs in line by attacking them directly. The typical approaches of budget cuts and layoffs usually don't result in sustained changes to their cost structure — the costs creep back. This isn't the way many organizations try to contain costs.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

We calculate that between 2010 and 2020, the people of China and India will have consumed goods and services worth a total of $64 trillion. In 1990, there were 227 million houses in China — by 2010, there were 371 million. Chinese consumers will spend $41.5 trillion over this period, with annual expenditures rising from $2.0

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Small and medium-size businesses are often intimidated by the cost and complexity of handling large amounts of digital information. Founded in 2010 by Anthony Goldbloom and Jeremy Howard, the company seeks to make data science a sport, and an affordable one at that. New, inexpensive ways to learn from data are emerging all the time.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2012

Census Bureau announced that the percentage of Americans who changed residences between 2010 and 2011 — 11.6 Highly skilled workers — especially in health care, engineering, and IT — have fared the best during the recovery. Fewer people are looking (or are able to look) beyond their own backyards for a new job.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Since 1980, we''ve seen a 400% increase in the cost of higher education, after adjustment for inflation — a higher cost escalation than any other industry, even health care. Wouldn''t that lead to lower per unit cost per class? Degrees may not be free, but the cost of getting some core education will be.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The scientific, medical and public health establishment continues to provide evidence of the value of immunization. This means that nearly 23.5

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Despite the current uncertainty surrounding the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health care leaders must not let debates over access detract from what needs to happen regardless of the legislation’s fate: Their organizations must improve the value of care they deliver. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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