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

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. A mission-driven payer mix.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 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 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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Uncertainty Insurance Newsletter Incentives 57

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

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?

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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. Management and leadership skills.

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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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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 15

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

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 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. Their IT strategic-planning exercise, with a 24-month outlook, involved 30 stakeholders on the front lines of patient care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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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

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. Which manager typically ends up getting it? The new reality is austerity.

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Company Succession Constraint Sharpe 12

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

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

But if they were launching today, banks would likely ask themselves how to accomplish the transactions (deposits, withdrawals, financial management) of banking without the physical commitment of banks. These linear models optimized efficient delivery of a known thing. They might try what ING is doing with its café model.

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Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 15

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. to fund poorly managed programs to subsidize rural and low-income communities. Google went on to win the case outright.)

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