Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

You have to watch your competitors and seek to always adapt to changes in the market, and innovate for solutions. Furthermore, if you factor in the loss of productivity and the cost of training new hires, that number jumps to as high as 200 percent of an employee’s annual salary. According to the U.S. percent this September.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Many communities in emerging markets receive their front-line primary health care from community health care workers. In South Africa, for instance, 50 percent of all health care providers are community workers. In fact, Vodafone spun out the work through the creation of a Mobile Health Unit in January 2010.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2019

The findings are important as social isolation is one of the most important determinants of health, alongside things such as education, income and marital status. ” Social determinants of health. These social factors have been shown to be as influential as physical aspects, such as blood pressure.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S.

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

In 2014 Jess Jacobs, a director in an innovation lab, started blogging about her experience as she received treatment for two rare diseases. Jess was trained as a Six Sigma Green Belt. The system was created by and optimized for surgeons and hospitals to provide safe care with good outcomes. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

That reality was made painfully clear in mid-May, when a cyberattacker using WannaCry ransomware crippled health care institutions and many other kinds of organizations around the world. In 2015 over 113 million Americans health records were exposed, and in 2016 the number was over 16 million, according to reports submitted to the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Businesses that are serious about reducing health care costs — and improving the health and well-being of their employees — should take a serious look at digital therapeutics, which have the potential to provide effective, low-cost ways to prevent and treat chronic diseases and their consequences. Insight Center.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 9, 2015

Loren Vorlicky of the Health Services Research Center translated them into a health care context. Restructure training. Develop increased in-service education. Dr. Deming included their work in Out of Crisis, pages 201-202: 6. Develop the concept of tutors. Provide operational definitions of all jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Conflict in health care has dominated the news in the United States lately with the political showdown over the Affordable Care Act followed by the shaky launch of the federal health insurance exchange. We have been engaged in health care negotiation and conflict resolution for two decades.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

one widely acknowledged indicator of a crisis in the making appeared in 1983, with the release of “ A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform.” ’s “once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world.”

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Elite medical training programs proudly proclaim that they are preparing future healthcare leaders. But with their focus on clinical disease management and research, training programs actually offer little in the way of true leadership training – authentic experience that helps young doctors develop the leadership skills they will need.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

health care system, but our five-year research project in India and the U.S. Almost every high-performing health care organization we studied was led by a medical professional (something that academic research has also found ). They view health care as a human right, and they empathize with the plight of patients.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

In the United States, our higher education system is broken. Since 1980, we''ve seen a 400% increase in the cost of higher education, after adjustment for inflation — a higher cost escalation than any other industry, even health care. We need transformational innovations to stop this train wreck.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

Spurred by new payment models and new incentives, health systems are increasing their commitments to innovation in health care delivery. Unfortunately, many systems are overlooking an entire class of innovations that are modest in size, low in risk, and highly likely to deliver wins for both patients and profits.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2014

To be useful, the bricks of modern education need the straw of experience-based skills. McKinsey’s reports on education-for-employment initiatives drew the same linkages. Innovations in education based on skills have shown promise. That’s an area ripe for collaboration between the educational and corporate worlds.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This prompts an inquiry into the prevalence of stigmatizing language in home health care, an increasingly popular form of outpatient care. Furthermore, how does the use of such language impact patient care? Within a cohort of 45,384 patients, the researchers meticulously scrutinized over 260,000 patient notes.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

At his invitation, I went this week to the state's two largest cities, Lexington and Louisville, to talk with local entrepreneurs and community leaders about what it takes to spur more innovation and entrepreneurship in a region. Think about the forms an "Innovation Story Studio" for the community could take.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. Boston Children’s Hospital designed an innovation accelerator to overcome these hurdles. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Thanks to disruptive innovations , much of our world today looks radically different than it did just a decade or two ago. But, there's one major economic sector where disruptive innovation remains as rare as a sunny day in Seattle: the public sector. Remember flying in the old days? What exactly do we mean by this?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Yet many employers still struggle to fill certain types of vacancies, especially for so-called middle-skills jobs — in computer technology, nursing, high-skill manufacturing, and other fields — that require postsecondary technical education and training and, in some cases, college math courses or degrees.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

He mentioned a number of themes that we cover regularly here at HBR: the minimum wage, inequality, women in the workplace, manufacturing, and health care to name just a few. He also noted his administration’s efforts to train and promote the hiring of veterans, which Derek Bennett argues is also good business.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Low-risk expectant mothers pay a high price for unnecessary prenatal appointments in the form of time away from work and associated lost wages or personal days, child care costs, and so on. The Leading Edge of Health Care. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The Patient Support Corps seeks to change that by giving patients the tools to make more-informed choices about their care. The idea of patient navigators is a relatively recent phenomenon in health care. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Harold Freeman pioneered the concept in 1990 in Harlem.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

We need to adopt a measure that will enable patients to efficiently navigate through the complex health care system. Patient Navigators (PNs) are individuals who coordinate patient care, communicate with patients and their families, and oversee care transitions. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Nearly everyone in health care wants to cut waste and reduce unnecessary costs — until the conversation turns to advanced chronic illness and end-of-life care. Fears about “pulling the plug on granny,” no matter how ill she may be, have slowed progress toward value-based care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. All patients would designate health care proxies. Educational programs with demonstrated effectiveness would be widely available.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

But according to data from industries including academia, health care, technology, manufacturing, retail, sports, and business services, people are actually “unconsciously incompetent” in a typical 20% to 40% of areas critical to their performance. After spending billions of dollars a year on corporate learning, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Obama reportedly felt the situation called for someone who could set priorities and help government agencies and private sector organizations of all kinds to collaborate and innovate. Top-down management simply will not get the innovation part of the job done. There are too many unknowns and too much risk for czar-like decision-making.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics. The Launch.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The more I learn about the results from crowdsourcing and open innovation efforts, the more I believe that the smart strategy is to expose your problems and challenges to as many people as possible and let them show you what they can do. Here's my most recent example of the power of this approach.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Consider two men with the same education, place of residence, and family background. Meanwhile, Starbucks, CVS Health, Walmart, and JPMorgan Chase joined with more than a dozen other large U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Health care systems are transforming themselves to deliver the “Triple Aim” of providing better care and a better patient experience, improving the health of populations, and lowering the cost of care. Mayo was the first care-delivery group to receive this delegated authority. Authority and Structure.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I have long believed that innovation is not just about creating new products or services; it's also about rethinking the very nature of an organization's relationships. At Starbucks, this shift is values can be seen in the health-care coverage and stock options we have long offered to part-time employees.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2017

Despite spending twice what other developed nations spend on a per capita basis for health care, the United States has a longstanding trend of having lower life expectancy, greater prevalence of chronic disease, and overall poorer health outcomes. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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