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. Kaplan and Michael E.

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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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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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

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

APRIL 9, 2012

Poor countries face severe resource constraints. Between 1992 and 2011, the mobile units have made more than 115 trips serving over 16,000 amputees. Finally, Dr. Clearly, doctors in India and Rwanda do not know anything more about the science of eye care or cardiac surgery or treating HIV/AIDS patients. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

It is a widely held belief among health care leaders that comparing their hospitals and clinics to peers is very important. health care quality and safety is abysmal: The evidence suggests that between 240,000 to 400,000 deaths occur each year due to medical errors. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

I like to share interesting articles (and other resources) that provide examples of organizations applying Deming’s ideas in practice. Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011).

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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. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 14, 2011

Executives running businesses in critical sectors like engineering, health care, government, manufacturing, research and development, aerospace and defense are all feeling the pressures of a changing workforce. the elusive GenY population. . Of course, he’s not alone. In recent years, “competency mode.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

The Leading Edge of Health Care. We looked at more than a dozen—both health care-specific programs with strong connections in the health care “ecosystem” and industry-agnostic programs. Digital technologies promise to transform health care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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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

JUNE 21, 2012

But growing up poor during the Depression, she had seen people cooperate at the grass-roots level, and she proposed that public use of common resources becomes a “tragedy” only when someone tries to impose a solution. Ostrom found that a resource will be well-managed when those who stand to benefit are close to it and to each other.

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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 4, 2011

A decade on, in January 2011, The Economist has revised its dark vision, calling Africa's countries " The Lion Kings.". Fueled by Asia's resource needs, Africa has seen rapid compounded real growth — rates exceeding 5% a year (per IMF data) — over the past decade.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2011, we published an article in HBR examining the surprisingly rapid growth of African economies and consumer markets. Lower resource prices and higher levels of sociopolitical instability have taken their toll: Africa’s real GDP grew at an average of 3.3% a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4%

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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

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. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Corporations like these have the assets, resources, and capabilities necessary to fuel innovation. Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. The company’s 136-year journey has taken it from power through transportation, appliances, health care, finance, media, and industry leaps.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

Age discrimination is the most widely experienced form of discrimination across Europe according to a 2011 Age UK report. In a work context, this can be particularly harmful. We wanted to better understand how these stereotypes play out in real work environments – and from the mouths of older workers themselves.

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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. In fact, when there are severe resource constraints, it is more important than ever to maintain audacious goals. The new reality is austerity. But that should only be fiscal reality.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

But there's an additional, perhaps less obvious contributor to their success: Cipla has built up a portfolio of skills and resources in a wide variety of highly targeted ways. irketi in 2011 provided expansion in Turkey. Upstream, it has an alliance with the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative in the U.S. laç Ticaret Anonim ?irketi

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In a 2011 study management teams exhibiting a wider range of educational and work backgrounds produced more-innovative products. In one study MBA students were asked to imagine that they were comanaging several four-person teams of interns, and that one team had asked for additional resources. health care firm.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

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. For example, the California Health Care Foundation is matching Encore Fellows with community health clinics across that state.

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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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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 30, 2010

Monday, August 30, 2010 Top Five Factors That Drive Employee Loyalty A 2010 survey by the Society for Human Resource Management shows that job security is what matters most to employees. The unstable economy, coupled with rising health care costs, make employer offered benefits more important than ever.

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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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Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Everyone knows that dentists, nurses, social workers and respiratory therapists are all health care professionals. Human resources management. Real consultants must have at least a 10-year track record to be at all viable as a judgment resource. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Academic, research.

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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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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. There are considerable hurdles to scaling any health service in resource-constrained settings.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

This poses a tremendous challenge for the funders, advocates, and public health institutions trying to end AIDS: How do we get resources to the right places in time to make a difference? And HIV is cropping up in marginalized communities in the U.S. A 2014 CDC report found that of the 1.2

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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. FMLA is a resource that can provide them with the support they need.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

The Leading Edge of Health Care. We decided to create a direct-to-patient initiative using Collective Impact, a framework for tackling social issues first articulated , in 2011, by John Kania and Mark Kramer. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum. How the most innovative providers are creating value.

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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 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

JANUARY 21, 2015

It’s in this climate that Obama is proposing up to seven earned paid sick days for all Americans, citing Connecticut’s 2011 law as precedence. Just as with health care , meditation rooms, and Foosball tables, sick leave is today treated as a perk — something certain employees get at certain companies.

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