Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Communication is essential for any successful relationship, including the one between a provider and her patient; however, social, economic, behavioral, and even care system barriers can weaken that connection, which may result in delayed or poor quality care. Leading Health Care Innovation. The Solution. The Evidence.

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Health Care Constraint Follow-up Survey 8

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. If the excess is that highly concentrated, it is likely that significant efficiency gains can be achieved with relatively little effort. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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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. So yes, the U.S.

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Health Care Film Incentives Information Technology 14

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

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Back in 2011, the McKinsey Global Institute published a report on the transformational potential of big data—and it would take a supercomputer to process all of the articles that have appeared since then urging companies to get on board before some digital disruptor renders them obsolete.

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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 uses a highly efficient production system, which slashes the cost-per-procedure. Reading HBR's List of Audacious Ideas is the perfect way to start 2012. The new reality is austerity.

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Company Succession Constraint Sharpe 12

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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Health Care Incentives Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The emphasis on patient-centered care and efficiency in the delivery of clinical outcomes means that physicians are now being prepared for leadership. A study published in 2011 examined CEOs in the top-100 best hospitals in USNWR in three key medical specialties: cancer, digestive disorders, and cardiovascular care.

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Management 360-Degree Feedback Mayo Training 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

In order to efficiently exchange the information necessary to buy and sell goods, produce things of value, learn, or be entertained, people had to gather in physical places. Information transfer processes are efficient enough to allow stores to come to shoppers, files to come to laptops, and work to come to workers.

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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. Those are all assets in an era of health care reform. I head one of these institutions: Dallas-based Parkland Health and Hospital Systems. Insight Center.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

These linear models optimized efficient delivery of a known thing. Case in point: Gap missed many of its performance numbers in 2011 by believing that their only interaction with their customers happened at the cash register. Conversations, not chains. But this doesn't help us when faster, fluid responses are what we need.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

health care system. Standardization of best practices in delivering care reduces unnecessary treatment, improves safety, and allows buyers and sellers of health care to use the same vocabulary, with the same information about quality and value. Change is difficult.

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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. In this view, an independent and external body best regulates teachers, in which teachers are part of an accountable and efficient production system.

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Education Survey Stress Definition 8

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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System Skills Health Care Constraint 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2017

Health care spending in the United States reached $3.2 This is almost twice as much as the OECD average of 9%, yet health outcomes in the U.S. Health care spending also varies substantially within the United States. health care spending. health care spending. Specifically, 8.4%

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Health Care Sample Efficiency Cost 9

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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Development Health Care Operations Franchising 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

HIV/AIDS is concentrated in communities where discrimination, stigma, social norms, and underinvestment in health services prevent people from accessing the critical prevention services, treatment, and care they need to stay healthy. A 2014 CDC report found that of the 1.2

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

That’s something any forward-thinking provider must aim for in today’s data-driven health care environment. Leading Change in Health Care. In December 2011, my wife was diagnosed with stage IIIA breast cancer with a specific type of tumor. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum. Precision medicine.

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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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Health Care Insurance Analysis Technology 8

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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Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

(Liberation of so-called “orphan works” would have been enabled by a proposed settlement in a case involving wholesale scanning by Google Books, but that settlement was scuttled in 2011. Google went on to win the case outright.) Here the Clinton agenda gets a mixed grade.

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Planning Innovation Review Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

True health care reform will happen when care is redesigned around the patient, not the doctor or hospital; when the financial incentives reward better health outcomes rather than hospital beds filled; and when the consumer has access to information to make good choices. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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