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Getting Real About Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

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. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.”

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters.

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The Skills Doctors and Nurses Need to Be Effective Executives

Harvard Business Review

We are witnessing an unprecedented transformation of the health care industry. Physicians and nurses are being called upon to lead these new health care enterprises — and are assuming a higher level of influence in the business of health care than ever before. People leadership.

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Strong Patient-Provider Relationships Drive Healthier Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. Martin’s Point Health Care-Bangor.

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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

We are also bringing students to India and Haiti to do ethnographic research that will inform development of a $300 House, and when prototypes are developed, they will be deployed and tested with those who will live in them. The $300 House project is a housing ecosystem project. The authors have an implicit negative view on business.

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Better Value in Health Care Requires Focusing on Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

Implementing a value-based strategy is on the mind of nearly every health care organization in the U.S. It seems that every week, one or another announces a new “Center for Health Care Value” or “Center for Health Care Innovation.” As Michael Porter and Thomas H.

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

In the last six years, a Harvard Business School team has worked with dozens of health care organizations to help them understand the true costs of their treatments for many medical conditions. Establishing this committee signaled that implementing value-based health-care delivery was an institutional priority.

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