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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. 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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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, Michael Porter explains exactly how health care needs disrupting, professors from INSEAD and MIT debate the merits of the MOOCs that might upend higher education, and our own Sarah Green tells publishers to quit whining about disruption and start enjoying the innovation that goes along with it. Let Them Eat MOOCs.

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Avoid the Deadly Temptations that Derail Innovators

Harvard Business Review

In its first year, the venture landed two almost-committed pilot sites and a prospect pipeline for a multi-billion-dollar market. Then he was offered an even bigger international site in a developing country eager for American know-how, in partnership with a U.S. professional organizations. organization that could also be a customer.

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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. We simply disagree with the idea that if it's a market, it can't also be a socially progressive solution.

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Value-Based Health Care Is Inevitable and That’s Good

Harvard Business Review

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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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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