Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

area, a move it describes as “driven largely by health care reform, which demands an integrated regional network.&# Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. Johns Hopkins is not alone. .&#

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The health care industry has survived economically by cross-subsidizing margin shortfalls in one activity with the revenues generated from others. But the very existence of these cross-subsidies is symptomatic of deep flaws in the health care reimbursement system. The actionable cost savings from process improvement.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As of 2011, organizations must have received at least Silver Awards to qualify for National Institute for Health Research Funding. The Future of Health Care. Creating better outcomes at reduced cost. The Charter recognizes commitment to advancement of women in higher education and research. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Providing employee health care has become a real challenge for businesses, especially in the United States, where costs keep rising inexorably. Companies can make a big difference for their employees — providing good health insurance and promoting good health — all while keeping costs down.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Army’s efforts to come to grips with a dramatic upsurge in war-related behavioral conditions over the past 13 years holds valuable lessons for bringing precision mental health care to the civilian world. Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 Innovating for Value in Health Care. million to 3.3 Insight Center.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). Its network of twenty-three hospitals and 160 clinics provides more than half of all health care delivered in the region.

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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

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

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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Health Care Comparison Crisis Incentives 8

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 13, 2013

This kind of variation is understandably a huge cause of concern at a time when health care costs are widely seen to be spinning out of control. Our research suggests, however, that the data contains a silver lining: The bulk of excess costs to CMS and inpatients for all the procedures — a total of $5.3

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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. This efficiency is a key driver of operational costs but also a leading indicator of patient satisfaction and quality since prompt discharge means clinical best practices are being applied and quality outcomes achieved.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

A few years ago, pharmaceutical giant sanofi-aventis sponsored an anonymous, Web-based survey of 4,200 workers at four health care, transportation, and manufacturing companies. The first part of the survey included 55 questions about health and sleep. Results from a survey of employees at several large U.S.

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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.

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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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Health Care Company Insurance Incentives 8

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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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Research from Cornell suggests that the most effective form of industrial action is a so-called “fixed-duration strike”, with these found to impose the biggest financial and reputational costs on employers. What’s more, such confrontational tactics were also effective at boosting employee power.

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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

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. Digital technologies promise to transform health care.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Pressuring physicians to maximize the number of patients they see and minimizing the time they spend with each is one of five counterproductive mistakes that health care providers often make in trying to reduce costs — the subject of a recent article in the Harvard Business Review.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

The Rising Cost of Raising Children. The cost of raising a child has increased by $40,000, or 23% in 2011 dollars, over the past-half decade, a new study finds. It Isn't All Bad News (The Atlantic). While forty G's is nothing to sneeze at, a lot of us probably expected that number to be even higher. BONUS BITS: Et Tu, Talents?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 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. Today, in the year 2011, in the vast majority of American hospitals, doctors write their orders by hand on triplicate forms. Yet, there is hope.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The protocol was implemented between November 2011 and May 2012. In an era of increasing costs, similar inexpensive interventions can be effective for multidisciplinary team building, patient safety, and improved outcomes. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. The Implementation.

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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

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

OCTOBER 11, 2016

In 2011 the Vatican granted the first digital imprimatur to an app called “Confession” which helps people prepare for confession. tax authorities in 2014 received electronic tax returns from almost 50 million people who had relied on online tax-preparation software rather than human tax professionals. Insight Center.

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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. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2012

The sharp recession triggered by the 2008 financial crisis and the uncertainty created by the 2011 debt crisis have fundamentally reset the world. Aravind's success can only partially be explained by India's lower costs of labor. Aravind uses a highly efficient production system, which slashes the cost-per-procedure.

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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. irketi in 2011 provided expansion in Turkey. What's more, these are markets that traditional developed market firms are increasingly targeting for their own growth goals. laç Ticaret Anonim ?irketi

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Today, enlightened employers know that, if they want great people to perform at the top of their game, they must engage and care for employees' well-being on a variety of fronts that go beyond a paycheck. At Starbucks, this shift is values can be seen in the health-care coverage and stock options we have long offered to part-time employees.

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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

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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