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

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

A plane developed that way wouldn’t fly. 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. No doubt, patients are at risk for more than seven harms.

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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

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. Insight Center.

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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. As Thomas Lee noted in the New England Journal of Medicine, “no one can oppose this goal and expect long-term success.”.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

In doing so, suggested Jerry Solon, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh, it is possible to start making real inferences about the inputs (health care services) that generate an output (treating a patient). health care. The second and less obvious reason is the state of the wiring of all health care transactions.

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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. Nobody has a crystal ball.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

For too long, employers have outsourced management of their employees’ health care benefits to those with little incentive to improve value. Engage health systems in change. The HTA “anticipates delivering better health care while reducing costs” through its members’ collective work.

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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. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. This continuing transfer from wages to health care does not reflect better value for money.

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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 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. Define the goal. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. The health of the American workforce is declining , reducing both productivity and company earnings.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

we fret that our health care system costs too much. But, given the structure of health insurance, the question should not be “Why are prices so high?” The lack of price sensitivity on the demand side of the health care market cannot but influence strategies on the supply side. The Long-Term Goal.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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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. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Teams of health care professionals, as found in clinics and hospitals. Corporations working with public sector and non-profit organizations to achieve mutual goals in the communities. Those who don't help to develop the business on the front end are just vendors and subcontractors. Professional societies and associations.

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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

MAY 22, 2012

Recently my fellow HBR blogger Daniel Markovitz suggested that stretch goals can be demotivating, and should be replaced by confidence-building "quick wins." The key to integrating the two is to carve quick wins out of long-term goals — so that each small success is a building block towards achieving a broader challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2018

In fact, by government edict, the goal is to direct policy, health care, and even citizens themselves toward longer, healthier, more enriching lives. Japan already enjoys the world’s second-biggest market in medical devices. percent of the 2014 global medical device market—behind the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. One area so far relatively untouched is change management.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Much has been written about the troubling lack of women in leadership roles generally and in health care in particular. So we embarked on an in-depth study of our own employees, based on a proprietary, multi-faceted process we use for market research. The Future of Health Care. Jenner Image/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment. That is, we are after real shared value. In partnership with the U.S. Redefine ROI.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

In fact, her love of the city’s mingled cultures and vibrant local businesses was one of the things that had inspired her to cofound Unamano, now a world-renowned nonprofit that supported entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Unamano’s mission was to help entrepreneurs in emerging markets—not in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 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 would a system to achieve these goals look like in practice? All patients would designate health care proxies.

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Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2015

In this paper I traced the contributions of Dr. Deming to Japan starting in 1950, and how companies like Toyota developed management systems that are now being studied (and copied) by other industries (including healthcare). My goal was to find out why this body of knowledge seemed to be absent. Theirs was an expanding market.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

But nowhere is the potential of this new era of opportunity more apparent and exciting than it is in health care. They can pinpoint treatments that sustain health in a more precise way than ever before. For the volume-to-value paradigm shift in health care, predictive analytics, though rarely visible, is the essential enabler.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The health care industry is now focusing on value-based care — improving the health of populations while reducing costs. As providers aim to compete in this new business context, they are partnering with firms whose data and services can increase care coordination and prevent disease.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. With that goal, we thought carefully about each of our clinical service lines: Are we the best at this service line? Leading Change in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Prices for specialty drugs in the United States are out of control, with spending rising much faster than in many other health care domains. If a drug costs a lot, that’s OK only if it makes people so healthy that it reduces their spending on other forms of health care. What if it treats a rare disease?

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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. Constraints need not be limiting.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

The hardest part is connecting long-term goals to near-term actions — especially when those new actions directly threaten the way you make money right now. Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C.,

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Based on what we’ve learned, here are some tips that can help recruiters and hiring managers alike better understand the contractor mindset and develop strategies to integrate them into their workforce. And when it comes to experience, companies in the market for contractors shouldn’t limit themselves to costly industry veterans.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2012

Most of its sales are in the developing world (including 40% in Africa) — where it sells its HIV drugs for about $350 per year per patient — yet it is as profitable as the pharma giants of Europe, North America, and Japan. It has doubled its market cap in the five years and sales reached almost $1.5

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