Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

For me and many other physicians, reading " Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care " by Clayton Christensen, Richard Bohmer, and John Kenagy in the September-October 2000 issue of Harvard Business Review was like having a light turned on. Community hospitals battled with other community hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Every so often, good ideas to lower health care costs in the US will come from unlikely sources. In a typical kidney transplant, for example, therapy using rabbit-derived antibodies costs up to $20,000 per patient. This cost reduction is achieved by using a product made by an Indian company, Bharat Serums & Vaccines Ltd.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Businesses that are serious about reducing health care costs — and improving the health and well-being of their employees — should take a serious look at digital therapeutics, which have the potential to provide effective, low-cost ways to prevent and treat chronic diseases and their consequences.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Providing employee health care has become a real challenge for businesses, especially in the United States, where costs keep rising inexorably. Companies can make a big difference for their employees — providing good health insurance and promoting good health — all while keeping costs down.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

At a time when health care costs in the United States threaten to bankrupt the federal government, U.S. costs by using practices commonly associated with mass production and lean production. level salaries, their costs of open-heart surgery would still be one-fifth of those in the U.S. Today, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Americans are both undertreated and overtreated in a health care system that wastes up to $1 trillion a year and delivers profoundly uneven quality: Current estimates indicate that preventable medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Information technology has come late to health care delivery.

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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. health care keeps getting costlier. These astronomical costs are largely due to the way competition works in American health care. Transforming Health 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

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. Here’s how most employers deal with the health care services they offer their employees and their dependents.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

One of the notable differences between emerging markets and the developed world is the ubiquity of mobile phones in emerging markets. Many communities in emerging markets receive their front-line primary health care from community health care workers. A parallel pilot project is ongoing in the UK.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

GDP dedicated to health care as fertile ground for expansion. ” Meanwhile, skeptics highlight Amazon’s lack of expertise in health care, a sector that many deem curiously resistant to the competitive forces that characterize the retail and web services markets in which Amazon has thrived.

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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. When the type and amount of health services largely depend on independent providers’ discretion, care becomes more fragmented and costly. Population-driven innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. But that is about to change, as big data and the ability to crunch it will deliver actionable insights that will increase health care’s reach, efficiency, accuracy, and value. Taking the Pulse of Health Care Transformation.

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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

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. So, the market is heading back to the future.

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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. Historically, corporate Goliaths have taken one of two approaches to this kind of upstart competition—try to muscle them out of the market or bring them into the fold through acquisition.

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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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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. Ultimately, this type of innovation serves the end customer — creating better functionality and experience for the user. 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

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. Paul metropolitan area, the Fairview and HealthEast health systems recently agreed to merge.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

America is a nation of innovators and entrepreneurs. We are a nation that cares for our fellow citizens, yet we have failed to create a health care system that fully meets the needs of people in this country. health care — how health care is paid for. Addressing Fragmentation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

secretary of health and human services, is a fierce and long-time critic of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including initiatives that restructure how some doctors are paid. But I hope it means that he recognizes we need to take bold action to correct our health system’s current trajectory.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

health care market more than a decade ago, they were greeted with high expectations. The hope was their lower cost structure and focus on convenience and price transparency — two things sorely lacking in traditional health care — would engender radical changes. When retail clinics entered the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2018

Imagining the same ad for a healthcare provider in 2018, even an innovative provider, is a stretch. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. To this end, they will need to move from pilot programs to large-scale efforts routinely offered across the care spectrum.

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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

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. Third, cost is still not transparent to patients. Three obstacles.

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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

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

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

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

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

With providers striving for better outcomes at lower costs, the first half of this century will be seen as a turning point in the worldwide development of efficient, outcome driven, and more personalized healthcare service delivery. Transforming Health Care Delivery to Increase Value.

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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). All will claim to reduce costs and improve quality. During the presidential campaign, Americans will be bombarded with proposals to improve the U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Without these term limits, the congress has no reason to include themselves in the health care system they impose on us. Influence Dealing with Tough Times The Lost Art of Brevity The Leadership Vacuum Shut-up & Listen Stop Selling and Add Value Social Media Influence The Influence Factor Ideas Dont Equal Innovation Indispensable?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Bush’s cabinet as secretary of health and human services. With the failure of the American Health Care Act , recently proposed by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, it is clear that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will continue to serve millions of Americans for the foreseeable future.

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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 14, 2016

What legacy costs will be incurred as providers strive to optimize their business processes to deliver comprehensive value-based health care? Our interviews indicate that care organizations are not yet ready to make such substantive operational changes and resource investments. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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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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