Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. The Future of Health Care. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

You started a company. Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. The sooner you shift to the needs of the customer, the better for you and your company. You got funding.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Every CEO of a large company worries about the small competitor that will come from behind and change everything. That’s why leaders of large healthcare companies are looking over their shoulder and thinking, “What is that small startup that is going to shake up our industry? What makes it work for our company?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Many of those working in the consolidating health care industry will immediately validate several of the authors’ key findings, including: Bureaucracy is growing, not shrinking. Transforming Health Care. What about solutions? Hamel and Zanini declare that there is “no map to disassembling bureaucracy.”

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. With the advent of digital imaging, Kodak was outpaced by other companies that could better achieve consumer goals. bankruptcy court.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Supposedly, everyone working in health care wants the same thing: to help people get and stay healthy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Health insurance companies are uniquely positioned to save the day in our ailing health system. Yes, you heard me correctly: health insurers. Health insurers — or “payers” — are reviled nearly universally. Offer options for low-cost, convenient care.

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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 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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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

JUNE 14, 2017

The Leading Edge of Health Care. How the most innovative providers are creating value. The bulk of HCIT investment supports startups that sell data — clinical or operational information that is otherwise difficult for clients to obtain or to organize. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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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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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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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

JANUARY 13, 2015

For years, one prescription to health care woes in the United States has been to shift costs to consumers. While patients are paying more and more out of pocket for care, key challenges stand in the way of them operating as effective consumers. Three obstacles. Reconceive the market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Few health care leaders would disagree that the U.S. health care industry needs to drastically change. Over the past two years, we’ve convened health care leaders at roundtables and other events to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face, both inside their organization and from the external market.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The company begins with a goal, such as safely carrying 250 passengers nonstop from New York to London in under six hours, and follows a disciplined approach to identify the components and subsystems that meet those requirements. We then plop them into an ICU or operating room and hope that they somehow work together.

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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

JULY 22, 2014

In health care, the Hippocratic Oath — “first, do no harm” — can hold as much sway in the board room as it does in the exam room. Among health care leadership, it can have the unintended effect of promoting inaction over change and innovation. health care has become akin to a smothered child—stifled and arrested.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

I also learned that Enterasys provides network services to companies like the New England Patriots and the Boston Celtics. To date, CCChampions is working with over 6,000 professional athletes plus health care professionals, child psychologists, local students and community partners. Needless to say, we really hit it off.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The shift from volume-based to value-based health care is inevitable. Although that trend is happening slowly in some communities, payers are increasingly basing reimbursements on the quality of care provided, not just the number and type of procedures. Tell us what health-care content you’d like to see more of from HBR.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Between October 1 and 17, the federal government ceased all nonessential operations because of a partisan stalemate over Obamacare. The cuts have caused economic and other distress across the nation, including serious impacts within the health care sector. Leading Health Care Innovation. billion or 5.5%.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

If you've had a bad experience with an operational improvement effort (like Six Sigma or Business Reengineering), or if you haven't given it much attention lately, you should take a fresh look. Many companies and executives have been disappointed with these efforts when results weren't sustained and inefficiency crept back in.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. Each of the new companies offers the hope of transforming the performance of the U.S. health care system. Yet, despite their stated enthusiasm, hospitals have been notoriously slow to adopt digital innovations. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. We were in a unique position to integrate ideas and teams across the company, and to draw insights from the outside world. Go to new places. Shape the market early.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The cultural and operational challenge for incumbent financial services firms was enormous. In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

Bundled payments in health care have gained favor because they can reduce costs and help improve outcomes. In essence, episodic bundles cover the cost of a patient’s care from start to finish—all the procedures, devices, tests, drugs and services a patient will need for, say, a knee replacement or back surgery.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

The same is true for social innovators. However, unlike many business leaders, it is easy for social innovators to overlook making an intentional effort to drive demand because the need for their innovation is so great. But even the most needed innovation does not sell itself. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Loren Vorlicky of the Health Services Research Center translated them into a health care context. Provide operational definitions of all jobs. Dr. Deming included their work in Out of Crisis, pages 201-202: 6. Restructure training. Develop the concept of tutors. Develop increased in-service education.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The success of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) in placing the Mangalyaan satellite into orbit around Mars last week has three important lessons for companies about winning in emerging markets: big ambitions are critical, constraints can be liberating, and India can be an R&D powerhouse. Mangalyaan is not an isolated example.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2014

Strategic consistency is the hallmark of many great companies. over the last half-century, but also one of the best-performing companies in any industry. But the corporate landscape is also littered with once-great companies whose strategies became obsolete faster than they were able to reinvent themselves. Or consider U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. We were in a unique position to integrate ideas and teams across the company, and to draw insights from the outside world. Go to new places. Shape the market early.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Historically, multinationals innovated in rich countries and sold those products in poor countries. Reverse innovation is doing exactly the opposite. It is about innovating in poor countries and selling those products in rich countries. Reverse innovation is also a significant learning opportunity for students in engineering.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

It operates at the task level and not the end-to-end process level.” However, many companies don’t do that. At a leading global logistics company, for example, the business rules in a claims process suggested that decisions on tolerances for refunds required the judgment of a manager.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2016

The United States takes pride in being on the cutting edge of all things digital, and rightly so: American innovations and innovators have led the way. economy operates at only 18% of its digital potential, and the sort of productivity gains that digital technologies should be enabling are not showing up in the broader economy.

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