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.

Health Care 8

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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Six Sigma Cost Health Care Analysis 8

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.

Health Care 15

Health Care Film Incentives Information Technology 15

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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Quality Mayo System Six Sigma 8

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. The real magic is in process innovation. Aravind uses a highly efficient production system, which slashes the cost-per-procedure. The new reality is austerity.

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Company Succession Constraint Sharpe 12

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

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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Industry McKinsey Early Adopters Rate of Return 8

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Chief Information Officer Committee Early Adopters 8

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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Technology Retail Transportation Construction 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. That was why Christensen's The Innovator's Dilemma became the bible of the boardroom.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

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

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,

Health Care 8

Health Care Trends Venture Funding Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2016

Late in June, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton surprised business leaders by issuing a detailed technology and innovation platform. 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.

Planning 8

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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Insurance Health Care Incentives Cost 8