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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In health care, value accrues to patients, insurers, and society at large. For example, a patient considering back surgery for disc herniation wants to know: “How much will this procedure lessen my pain and increase my mobility, when will I see improvement, and how much will this cost? Insight Center. Similarly, U.S.

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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 24, 2017

But health care providers are also widely held responsible for overprescribing prescription opioids. Transforming Health Care. million Medicare beneficiaries who filled at least two opioid prescriptions in 2011, 34% received prescriptions from two providers, 14% from three providers, and 12% from four or more providers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

One of the main justifications for the mergers and acquisitions sweeping the health care industry is greater integration between the physicians and teams that care for patients. In 2011 Mayo elected to follow this course. We chose to support independent medical centers by creating the Mayo Clinic Care Network.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. Yet, a variety of financial and operational problems impeded success and we lacked a clear strategic path toward building the kind of coordinated care delivery system healthcare desperately needs. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. The Leading Edge of Health Care. But turning clinicians into entrepreneurs is anything but easy. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Low-risk expectant mothers pay a high price for unnecessary prenatal appointments in the form of time away from work and associated lost wages or personal days, child care costs, and so on. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum. How the most innovative providers are creating value.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Why do American employers act like helicopter parents when it comes to their employees’ health care? Today all wage earners are required to put savings into an individual account to cover future health-care expenses, a scheme called Medisave. While Health Savings Accounts have existed in the U.S.

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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. Develop standards for QIPs. Develop standards for meaningful participation by individual physicians.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Moreover, finding sufficient funds to maintain the current level of pension and health-care benefits is a major concern for many countries. Our data came from five biennial surveys conducted between 2002 and 2011 for the English Longitudinal Study of Aging funded by the UK government. Our analyses yielded some further results.

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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 Of workers who were laid off in 2011 and found new jobs, 20 percent relocated to a new city or state. Employers are also most willing to pay relocation costs for employees with these skills. Last fall, the U.S.

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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. What's more, these are markets that traditional developed market firms are increasingly targeting for their own growth goals. and other traditionally developed markets.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Healthcare has become extraordinarily complex — the balance of quality against cost, and of technology against humanity, are placing ever-increasing demands on clinicians. Medical care is one of the few sectors where lack of teamwork might actually cost lives, yet physicians are not trained to be team players.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

If the health care industry followed suit, the impact on the quality and cost of care, the patient’s experience, and innovation could be enormous. The impact of open, standardized APIs in health care would be even more significant. Leading Change in Health Care. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Even health care is harking back to the days of the house call. The latest evidence is the recent news that healthcare companies are experimenting with “hospitals at home” for patients – not surprising, given that the cost of adding a new in-hospital bed now averages well above $1.5 We mainly work at home.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Demographers are predicting that more than half the children born in the developed world since 2000 will live to 100. Today tens of millions of 50-, 60-, and 70-somethings say they are eager to apply their accumulated skills in areas like education, health, and the environment. They want to create a better world for future generations.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

As health care reform evolves, large public institutions that offer a health safety net have some advantages over privately owned enterprises. When the type and amount of health services largely depend on independent providers’ discretion, care becomes more fragmented and costly. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

Nearly every criticism the authors levy in their op-ed is answered in 12 blog posts , a magazine article from January/February 2011, a video interview , and a slideshow that integrated community and commentary, which were published between last October and this May. Our goal is to increase demand for local trades, not drive them away.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

That breakthrough is value-based care, the goal of which is to lower health care costs and improve quality and outcomes. Not everyone, however, is onboard yet, because part of the value-based equation is that hospitals will be paid less to deliver better care. How the Health Care World Will Change.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Poor pay , increased health care costs , and diminished pension plans are certainly core issues — teachers in Oklahoma haven’t received a pay boost in a decade. Teachers perceive themselves and their students as being treated as fungible costs of production, cogs in a bureaucratic machine.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 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. What we describe as a "health care system" is no system at all. And this complexity happens within a single health care delivery organization.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Business development. Everyone knows that dentists, nurses, social workers and respiratory therapists are all health care professionals. The company which makes the small investment on the front end (consulting) saves higher costs. Look at their activity in professional development and business education.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? This was a $1.2

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

What is excellent health care? So imagine their reaction when University of Utah Health Care (UUHC) started surveying patients and asking them how they define excellence. Since the launch of “five-star” care, UUHC has celebrated steady gains in quality metrics and a reduction in costs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

But, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the average number of births per woman declined during each of the four years following 2007, dropping to 1.89 (preliminary estimate) — below replacement rate of 2.10 — in 2011. Provide World-Class Child Care. Children require care, yet the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Academic medicine, which makes up, approximately, 20% of these costs ($540 billion), is under profound threat. Teaching hospitals and medical schools are faced with declining clinical revenue, dwindling research dollars and increasing tuition costs. This program shortens the time to get a degree and so reduces the cost of tuition.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 30, 2016

One of those was excessive health care costs. was developed at a U.S. Health care is extremely expensive everywhere. But in the USA the health care system is twice as costly as other rich countries. The costs of decades of failure are extrodinary. We have to do better.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

The behavioral biases play out in a simple paradox: People overconsume health care but underconsume prevention, and insurers or taxpayers are left with the bill. Consider the Vitality program developed by the South African insurance company Discovery over 25 years ago.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 10, 2018

There’s a lot of excitement right now about how artificial intelligence (AI) is going to change health care. And many AI technologies are cropping up to help people streamline administrative and clinical health care processes. billion in 206 deals between 2011 and 2017. health care by 2026.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

health care system that won’t change. As a result, regardless of how the law evolves, tremendous opportunities will remain for consumers, medical providers, health care payers, and investors to shape and improve the health care system. The Leading Edge of Health Care. it is now 37.9,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It is true that just over 46% of Americans paid no federal income taxes in 2011. has developed a dependency problem. "In That's about right: in 2011, according to the Census Bureau , 150 million of the 305 million people in the U.S. who pay no income tax.". Or was his voter base. It's that 66.6%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

in February 2011, it became clear that machine learning could go beyond this single-minded focus and handle unstructured, ambiguous data. Before AlphaGo played against a human, Google researchers had been developing it to play video games — Space Invaders , Breakout , Pong , and others. Natural languages. Deep learning.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Without these term limits, the congress has no reason to include themselves in the health care system they impose on us. mikemyatt: RT @thinkBIG_blog: Cheap always costs you mo. However, I have recently changes my tune. There is motivation to limit their own pay to that near what their constituents make. Our Freedom.

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