Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Developing this ownership culture will be key to our success. Pfizer people care. They embody our humanity and innovative spirit, and are determined to tackle some of the most pressing health care challenges of our time. I am personally proud of Pfizer’s colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In this article, I’d like to share the insights we’ve gleaned from the model’s first full year of operation, which hopefully organizations in health care and many other industries will find useful. Interestingly, despite the number of huddles, the number of action items has never overwhelmed the system.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Continuous optimization, both on the operational side and the customer side, is good and important -- in the short term. It moved from a search engine to advertising to spawning off autonomous vehicle and health care companies that may turn into the new cores of the organization. This is where the established player reigns.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

A plane developed that way wouldn’t fly. We then plop them into an ICU or operating room and hope that they somehow work together. Preventing complications, errors, and other harm too often depends on the heroism of clinicians rather than the design of safe systems.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

As we continue to bring our culture to life in our operating model and our HR practices, we continue to use surveys, crowdsourcing, focus groups and other tools to ensure our people are heard. It was not a top-down approach, even though this work was sponsored by our CEO and senior team. How is 3M responding to the COVID-19 crisis?

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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. Lean daily management systems were pioneered by Toyota, Honda, and other manufacturers. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

The solution is called CareAi: an AI-powered computing system anchored on blockchain that can diagnose infectious diseases, such as malaria, typhoid fever, and tuberculosis, within seconds. By bringing AI and blockchain together, CareAi uses an anonymous distributed healthcare architecture to deliver health services to patients anonymously.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Physician discontent over deteriorating working conditions and growing risks to patient care has risen to alarming levels in European hospitals. To understand physicians’ evolving reality, Bain’s biennial Europe Front Line of Health Care Survey tracks European practitioners’ attitudes, priorities and decision-making power.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). Intermountain Healthcare is an integrated delivery system based in Utah and Idaho. Correctly managed, they lead naturally to patient-centered care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. To scale you need a playbook so that everyone has clarity about the processes and systems that get stuff done. And, you operate in a fishbowl. How do you avoid this fate? Make the turn. Have them write it all down.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

health care system. Many have received unpleasant surprises, such as a medical bill they expected to be covered by their health insurance or an unexpectedly expensive bill for a simple service. It is costing employers and health plans billions of dollars each year. The Future of Health Care.

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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

MARCH 7, 2018

Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Based on this event, IDHA began introducing voice technology with three discrete pilots: The intensive care unit. Research among clinicians is affirming our optimism about voice in health care. Sponsored by Optum.

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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

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

Smith was ready to be discharged home after his laryngectomy, an extensive operation that removes a patient’s throat due to cancer. The care team ultimately found him a temporary rehabilitation facility where he recovered for two weeks until he was ready to go home. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Insight Center.

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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. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Simply put, Project ECHO is a new system for transferring specialty care knowledge to primary care providers. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

This is largely because many hospitals are reimbursed for every day a patient is in a bed, and it’s easier for the care team to monitor the healing process if all of their patients are in one unit. The system was created by and optimized for surgeons and hospitals to provide safe care with good outcomes. Insight Center.

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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

APRIL 10, 2015

Many have argued that healthcare systems need to move away from the fee-for-service model. Even if a new payment system is put in place, there is no guarantee that healthcare providers will change their behavior with patients. The status quo in many healthcare institutions is to put the doctors in charge of running the operation.

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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 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. Leading Change in Health Care.

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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 23, 2014

Health insurance companies are uniquely positioned to save the day in our ailing health system. Yes, you heard me correctly: health insurers. Health insurers — or “payers” — are reviled nearly universally. Offer options for low-cost, convenient care.

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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. Tell us what health-care content you’d like to see more of from HBR.

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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. And the Bree Collaborative in Washington State demonstrates how this system approach to change can be scaled across a state. Engage health systems in change.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The physician attending to him did not have access to the details of Mr. M’s medical history or end-of life-wishes, since his hospital and primary care physician had different electronic medical record (EMR) systems. This uncomfortable scenario will sound familiar to most health care professionals. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 1980, the national expenditure on health care in the United States was just over 9% of Gross Domestic Product. According to data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, workers’ earnings rose by 47% from 1999 to 2012, but their contribution to health insurance premiums during that time went up by 180%.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

One of the main justifications for the mergers and acquisitions sweeping the health care industry is greater integration between the physicians and teams that care for patients. We chose to support independent medical centers by creating the Mayo Clinic Care Network. But consolidation does not ensure integration.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Loren Vorlicky of the Health Services Research Center translated them into a health care context. Develop the concept of tutors. Develop increased in-service education. Provide operational definitions of all jobs. Supervision belongs to the system and is the responsibility of the management.

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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 2, 2015

Many health care organizations today are striving to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and to be rewarded for accomplishing both. It makes much more economic and operational sense to create and leverage a central cadre of professionals than to ask each clinical unit, on its own, to acquire such expertise.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Leaders in today’s complex health care systems need better processes and systems for aligning day-to-day, clinical-care activities with the strategic goals of their organizations. Accounting systems now uniformly capture administrative data across a huge, geographically dispersed system.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

At Geisinger, a healthcare system serving more than 1.5 By combining data-driven assessments, targeted engagement of high prescribers, EHR-based interventions, and pharmacist support in care management, Geisinger has dramatically reduced opioid prescribing. The devastating opioid epidemic in the U.S. Data-driven assessment.

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