Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Caring for the health and well-being of our fellow humans has always been viewed as a combination of art and science. With all the recent advances in technology, there is no doubt the health care industry as a whole gets an “A” in science. Some dysfunction may always exist in our health care systems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. Transforming Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

But how do you overcome obstacles to spreading innovation, like fear of change, resource constraints, and slow, consensus-based decision making? As Atul Gawande put it in a recent New Yorker article , “Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

At Sanford Health, a $4.5 billion rural integrated health care system, we deliver care to over 2.5 Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Sven Krobot/EyeEm/Getty Images. million people in 300 communities across 250,000 square miles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 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. The challenge that we face — making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people — is not unique to health care.

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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

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

health care system. The reason: It could liberate health care data for game-changing new uses, including empowering patients as never before. Let them share it with whomever they wish in the course of their own health care journey. Health Care’s New Frontier. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

Voice-powered technologies such as Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, and Cortana, are changing the way people shop, drive cars, and manage their homes. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Hayon Thapaliya for HBR. households by 2022. ” Insight Center.

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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

JUNE 20, 2017

health care system spends almost a third of its resources — $750 billion annually — on unnecessary services and inefficient care. These tools are now being used across the continuum of care, from disease surveillance to chronic disease prevention to identifying patients who are at risk of deterioration.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

But it wasn’t until recent advances in the technology that people really began to take notice. And although the industry saw a slight slowdown in 2015, innovations with 3D-printed products are visible among a wide range of industries. 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, has been around since 1984. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

That reality was made painfully clear in mid-May, when a cyberattacker using WannaCry ransomware crippled health care institutions and many other kinds of organizations around the world. In 2015 over 113 million Americans health records were exposed, and in 2016 the number was over 16 million, according to reports submitted to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Institutions purchase hundreds of individual, siloed technologies — each with its own work processes, training, and user interfaces — based on what the market offers. The result is a constellation of technologies that rarely connect, to the detriment of patient safety, quality, and value.

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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. Innovating for Value in Health Care. million to 3.3 Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 Insight Center.

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Health care remains one of the few services that require people to have a face-to-face interaction to obtain access. In January 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new provider reimbursement code for non–face-to-face health care services for patients who have chronic medical conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. The ramifications for traditional care providers typically dominated by hospitals is going to be big and may happen fast. Carol Yepes/Getty Images. But back to the insurers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

For decades, experts and policy wonks have argued that health care is a uniquely inefficient industry, insulated from conventional market forces that operate in the rest of the economy. Poorly performing hospitals do not feel pressure from patients to improve quality because standard market forces do not apply to health care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Technological improvements in health care have given us the quality of life we enjoy today. But chronic conditions, end-of-life care, and an aging society will bankrupt the United States if it doesn’t make dramatic changes to its health care system. health care is stuck in the craft mode.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. health care system woefully underperform relative to those made in health care in other countries. Yet, investments in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2018

An estimated 14% of wasted health care spending — $91 billion — is the result of inefficient administration. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. That’s always a risk with new technology. That’s right: faxes.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Its success demonstrates the potential of digital health services, and its approach can serve as a model for applying such services to other chronic diseases. DPPs typically include in-person meetings of a small group of prediabetic adults who, with the guidance of a health coach, progress through a diet and lifestyle curriculum.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Few recent trends in health care delivery have more power to improve population health, patient and provider experience, and hospital business models than virtual care. Which technology tools will meet the demographic, clinical, and business needs for these services? Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

But in health care, few things work as expected. One big reason why is that hospitals purchase technologies without requiring that they communicate with each other. Health care’s safety and quality challenges are exacerbated by its procurement problem. Health care is woefully underengineered.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

health care system in ways big and small that would either build on or radically revamp the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We reviewed four strategies: the current health care system’s trajectory as is; comprehensive demand-side reform; aggressive supply-side reform; and a combination of demand-side and supply-side reform.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They can use their market power (they direct the bulk of health care dollars) and understanding of different consumer segments to create innovative products, services, and partnerships that address consumers’ needs. In the process, they can help move us all toward a low-cost, value-based health care system.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2015

Something similar is just starting to happen in health care. health-care industry in action, one billing claim or specialist referral at a time. As a result, we can rapidly innovate and improve our products. Slowly but surely, these same techniques are being brought to the B2B space, and to health care.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2020

The pandemic has demonstrated the value of technologies that beam vital data back to doctors.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

health care system. The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation. surgery, medicine, oncology), care areas (e.g., Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Many health care organizations today are striving to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and to be rewarded for accomplishing both. Leading Change in Health Care. HSS appointed Dr. Catherine MacLean, a coauthor of this article, to be its first chief value medical officer. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

The Leading Edge of Health Care. How the most innovative providers are creating value. ” In health care, providers don’t want data, they want solutions that lower costs and improve outcomes. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum. Yet too many HCIT providers are still pursuing that data-centric advantage.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

By doing so, they are testing the limits of the potential power of repurposing online retail innovations that consumers have become accustomed to in varied industries and potentially revamping healthcare in the process. Healthcare innovations like these raise intriguing possibilities. Consider the case of Proteus Digital Health.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

More and more health care organizations are beginning to track their performance on outcomes – and they’re finding that getting started isn’t easy. So how are today’s health care leaders implementing outcomes measurement in their hospitals and clinics? Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The pressures for fundamental change in health care have been building for decades, but meaningful change has been limited while the urgency of change only grows. There is only one real solution, which is to dramatically increase the value of health care. And with such deep societal concerns about health care spending?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

And they are coming soon to more sophisticated domains, such as health care. Much of the discussion about the Internet of Things has focused on the technology that makes it possible, but the technology is the easiest part. I describe how to achieve this acceptance-expectation balance in more detail in this article.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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