Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In the United States and throughout the world, health care is undergoing a transformation. The clear solution is to increase the value of care: improving patient outcomes while containing, if not reducing, costs. Leading Health Care Innovation. Why Health Care Is Stuck — And How to Fix It.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

One of the hardest things about introducing innovation or change in organizations is getting people on board. This is especially true in health care. For many staff, physicians, and nurses, these changes mean less time healing patients and fostering wellness — the reasons they became health care professionals.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 9, 2014

Fortunately for candidates, many companies worldwide are hiring and unfortunately for employers, the shortages of skilled workers are costing companies billions of dollars. The two industries least likely to add people are those two that are most affected by uncertainty and regulation—financials and health care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

policy and institutions is unclear, but their approach to health care reform will have profound impacts on the health and well-being of the American people and on the U.S. Trump’s stated goal is to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), but the details of his plan are still unknown.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

While the term political leadership may have become an oxymoron, it is simply impossible to be a statesman and not be a leader… It has been said that a politician is concerned with winning an election, and a statesman is concerned with future generations. We simply need to restore principled leadership in Washington.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Consider Southwest Airlines, which shook up the airline industry with its low-cost, high-customer service approach to air travel. A concrete example comes from within my own company, McKesson, the largest health-care services firm in the US. Buy-in from the Goliath’s top leadership was critical.

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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 transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation.

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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. In fact, this environment is the most disruptive I’ve witnessed in my 35 years in the health care industry. Carol Yepes/Getty Images.

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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. Hamel and Zanini declare that there is “no map to disassembling bureaucracy.” Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2017

Ironically, as congressional Republicans have been trying to replace the Affordable Care Act, the ACA’s popularity is at an all-time high , and the majority of Americans now believe that it is the federal government’s responsibility to provide health care for all Americans. One is the American Medical Association.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 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. What we describe as a "health care system" is no system at all. Clinical work must also change, and that involves process.

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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 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 14, 2017

health care system is begging for disruption. It costs way too much ($3.3 Hundreds of millions of Germans, French, English, Scandinavians, Dutch, Danish, Swiss, Canadians, New Zealanders, and Australians get comparable or better health services for half of what we pay. Paul Taylor/Getty Images. Could this be it?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Increasing value in health care is a top priority for health systems, payers, and policy makers across the globe, as health care costs continue to escalate and consume an ever-greater proportion of national expenditures. Taking the Pulse of Health Care Transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In six years of working across 60 countries in search of the perfect health system, I have been fascinated by the fact that every country wants to deliver safe, consistently good, financially sustainable health care, but no one has been able to do it. Leading Change in Health Care. Insight Center.

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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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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them. Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them.” We can become so close to our current product line, performance, or business model that we don’t see either the opportunity cost or a new vision for the future. Kristen Cox. This gap isn’t always clear.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The starting point for achieving value in any health care system is to measure outcomes. Although this can present leadership challenges related to shifting strategy, culture and operations, it certainly isn’t rocket science. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Get Institutional Commitment.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

While the president has stated on the record that he wants health care for everyone , his nominee for secretary of health and human services refused to back that promise in confirmation hearings. At the Program on Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, at the Harvard T.H. health care system.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2016

What legacy costs will be incurred as providers strive to optimize their business processes to deliver comprehensive value-based health care? How will leadership teams and boards of directors orchestrate the strategic transformations of their currently successful businesses? Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Let’s hope that’s true for “value” in health care. Where other mantras – such as quality or managed care – have failed to galvanize the system’s diverse stakeholders, value may have a chance. The question, of course, is whether the term will help spur the fundamental changes that our health care sector so desperately needs.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

As payment and care delivery models shift in the United States from episodic, fee-for-service care toward population health and value-based reimbursement, health care leaders are focused more than ever on patient engagement as a key to driving down costs and improving outcomes. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

That breakthrough is value-based care, the goal of which is to lower health care costs and improve quality and outcomes. Not everyone, however, is onboard yet, because part of the value-based equation is that hospitals will be paid less to deliver better care. How the Health Care World Will Change.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Calls for teamwork in health care are as persistent as they are hard to heed. For years, the basic model for managing coordination in health care delivery has relied on what organizational scholars called role-based coordination. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine reported that American health care was decidedly dangerous for patients. The cause was not malfeasant individuals; it was inadequately designed and operated systems of care delivery. For most this is a profoundly different approach, which requires a new style of leadership.

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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

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. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. nationally.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In my role at the GE Foundation , I am lucky enough to meet pioneers with a global vision for health and sustainable development. Leadership begins with sharing a vision with many people in numerous communities from diverse walks of life. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

What is the greatest impediment preventing Americans from getting good health care? Surprisingly, it’s not the cost of care. UK, Germany, Japan, and Brazil, health care consumers are overwhelmingly female and have huge unmet needs. Women account for a significant chunk of the market.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

For a discipline so fundamentally altruistic, health care is oddly dysfunctional around relationships. Our full article describing social capital, its roles in health care, and strategies for building it in health care organizations is available here (PDF). Leading Health Care Innovation.

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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. Most have begun this journey with pilot projects to obtain valid measures of outcomes and cost for one or two medical conditions. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Among the many changes ushered in with the new health care law is the shift to value-based purchasing, which ties a system’s Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to the quality of the services it provides. These broad drivers are, in fact, common to most of our clients across the health care industry. A Case in Point.

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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

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. Above all, it requires strong resolve and adept leadership. Above all, it requires strong resolve and adept leadership. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality. We also had open questions in our surveys to give people an opportunity to express their concerns related to leadership, operations, compensation, and staffing. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Cost cutting is difficult in any industry, but it’s particularly challenging in healthcare, where organizations are simultaneously undergoing a major transformation to improve care and the patient experience. Banner’s leaders made a conscious choice to eschew industry benchmarks in the cost initiative. Vision before action.

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