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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 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. It would be a shame if they did.

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What It Really Takes to Listen to Patients

Harvard Business Review

Medical science has enabled our health care system to deliver outcomes that would have been impossible a generation ago, and advances in fields such as genomics and stem-cell therapy offer immense promise to further accelerate medical innovation. We must strive to move beyond our own experiences.

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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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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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Avoid the Deadly Temptations that Derail Innovators

Harvard Business Review

Then he was offered an even bigger international site in a developing country eager for American know-how, in partnership with a U.S. She started a non-profit organization with lavish foundation funding and a high-profile board in order to spread an innovation in health care. 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. Our goal is to increase demand for local trades, not drive them away. For them, profit seems to be a dirty word.

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