Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

Voice-powered technologies such as Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, and Cortana, are changing the way people shop, drive cars, and manage their homes. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Hayon Thapaliya for HBR. households by 2022. ” Insight Center.

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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.

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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

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. Institutions purchase hundreds of individual, siloed technologies — each with its own work processes, training, and user interfaces — based on what the market offers. We then plop them into an ICU or operating room and hope that they somehow work together.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

It’s what health care might seem like to doctors, patients, and regulators around the world as new methods in machine learning offer more insights from ever-growing amounts of data. Health care regulators must also explore new ways to govern the use of these methods. Michael Froomkin have noted.

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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. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. health care keeps getting costlier.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

million adults in the United States with high blood sugar levels in danger of developing type 2 diabetes. Transforming Health Care. Weight loss is a clinically-accepted proxy measure for reducing the risk of developing diabetes.) million people in the United States and costs a staggering $245 billion per year to treat.

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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 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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

But in health care, few things work as expected. One big reason why is that hospitals purchase technologies without requiring that they communicate with each other. Health care’s safety and quality challenges are exacerbated by its procurement problem. How did we get here?

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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

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They can use their market power (they direct the bulk of health care dollars) and understanding of different consumer segments to create innovative products, services, and partnerships that address consumers’ needs. In the process, they can help move us all toward a low-cost, value-based health care system.

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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). Its network of twenty-three hospitals and 160 clinics provides more than half of all health care delivered in the region.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Supposedly, everyone working in health care wants the same thing: to help people get and stay healthy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Teams of health care professionals, as found in clinics and hospitals. Those who don't help to develop the business on the front end are just vendors and subcontractors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The pressures for fundamental change in health care have been building for decades, but meaningful change has been limited while the urgency of change only grows. There is only one real solution, which is to dramatically increase the value of health care. And with such deep societal concerns about health care spending?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2015

The status quo in many healthcare institutions is to put the doctors in charge of running the operation. Yet much of what healthcare institutions need to do—facilities management, procurement, accounting, human resources—has little to do with the skills developed during medical training. Develop standard protocols for care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

In contrast to health care, aviation has been an early adopter of decision-support technology — the “fly by wire” flight-control computers that prevent unsafe operation of the aircraft and reduce maintenance costs and pilot workloads. Health Care’s New Frontier. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2015

The only way to thrive, or even survive, these managers conclude, is to find workers who can co-create value with customers and constantly improve operations. This same approach has also been used effectively in software and health care. The Future of Operations. The problem is not surprising. Insight Center.

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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. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

health care system, a new wave of analytics and technology could help dramatically cut costly and unnecessary hospitalizations while improving outcomes for patients. The Leading Edge of Health Care. The potential benefits from applying machine-learning analytics in health care are enormous.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Since the Expedition One launch to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2001 — the first long-duration stay on the orbital construction site — NASA’s Human Health and Performance team has been developing expertise in the planning and provision of medical support to crews staying in our world’s most remote environment.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The size and layout of a room, whether a bed sits in the middle or against a wall (even which wall), how much space is maintained for patients to walk versus how many beds or operating equipment can be accommodated, have not been considered predictors of health outcomes in the past. The Future of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

health care, one thing hasn’t changed: Patients, clinicians, health plans, payers, and policy makers are still striving to achieve better outcomes at lower costs. Redesigning their care is a major way we can improve lives and sustainably reduce overall health care costs.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. These firms also had higher-rated processes for innovation. Director Recruitment and Skills.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

They are also more likely to be publicly insured, have fair-to-poor self-reported health, and be susceptible to lack of coordination within the health care system.” ” Overall, these patients make up just 5% of the patient population, but account for nearly half the spending on health care in the United States.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Organizations across sectors are looking closely at the technology to see what it can do for their business. In advanced manufacturing, by contrast, operations often drive the most value. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In retail, for instance, productivity could increase by another one-third in developed economies and double in emerging economies between 2012 and 2025. Boosting the productivity of health care is essential, given how fast this sector is growing. Innovation in health care is transforming the sector. We disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

It brought the idea of building a safer health system to the forefront of the public’s mind. Since then, improving health care outcomes has become a central goal in everything from clinical training and research studies to government initiatives and political debate. Waves of Innovation in Surgical Quality and Safety.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

This empowers physicians to support the quality and cost goals inherent in a health system’s value-based care model. Below, we offer three recommendations for health systems looking to do this. The Future of Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Creating better outcomes at reduced cost.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. The positions are there for the taking.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

The results show uneven progress: The technology sector comes out on top — no surprise there. Retail and financial firms were among the first movers, while today we see mining and manufacturing firms adopting digital technology in a purposeful way, with mobile-enabled tools and IoT-powered devices.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Manufacturing has captured some 20% to 30% of the potential, while the public sector and health care make the worst showings, realizing only 10% to 20% of the value. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Merely layering powerful technology systems on top of existing operations is not enough.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

One of the most recent automation technologies to emerge is robotic process automation , or RPA. It operates at the task level and not the end-to-end process level.” The company may have collections of standard operating procedures, but they are often poorly documented and out of date.

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