Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. The analogous situation in health care is that whereas doctors and hospitals focus on producing health care, what people really want is health. Health care is just a means to that end — and an increasingly expensive one.

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Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. The ramifications for traditional care providers typically dominated by hospitals is going to be big and may happen fast. Carol Yepes/Getty Images.

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Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In heath care, Omada has similarly turned services into a product, packaging complementary healthcare devices, services, and support into a turnkey offering it sells to employers and health insurance plans to help people lose weight and reduce their risk of type 2 diabetes or heart disease.

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Health Care Insurance Wireless Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. This continuing transfer from wages to health care does not reflect better value for money.

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Health Care Cooper Insurance Cost 8

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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Quality Health Care Govindarajan Innovation 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

health care system. The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation. surgery, medicine, oncology), care areas (e.g., Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Budgeting System Innovation Payback Period 8

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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Health Care Participative System Cost 8

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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Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

Kurt Newman became a pediatric surgeon because he was attracted to the innovative culture and the extraordinary variety of problems doctors encounter at children’s hospitals, as well as the dramatic recoveries children can make. The payback is so meaningful that it draws people who are creative and innovative and thinking differently.

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CEO System Innovation Chief Financial Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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Innovation Company Transportation Software 8

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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Health Care Sharpe Document Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

By spending up to 42 hours researching and interviewing a given candidate, we take great care to ensure that we find and hire the right people. Once clear, consistent outcomes are set, management conversations shift from exercises in delegation to problem-solving sessions.

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Team Organization Management Consultative 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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. Health care leaders, and indeed any provider, must communicate well both verbally and non-verbally.

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Training Health Care Leadership Education 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

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Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

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Management Crisis Porter Credit Rating 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Not long ago, many services such as tax accounting were delivered episodically and in-person, as most health care still is today. There is still a need for accountants and face-to-face meetings, but typically accountants now require such visits for only the more complicated cases that can’t be managed with software or a call.

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Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Many hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic , are implementing a variety of strategies to improve the patient experience —an issue that’s rapidly becoming a top priority in health care. The Accountable Care Act now links performance related to patient-experience metrics to reimbursement. Dig deeper into patients’ experiences.

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Health Care COO Operations Storytelling 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

For chief executives, developing a good strategy is a management challenge that, at its best, involves maximizing the unique contributions of very different executives and, at its worst, requires managing counterproductive tension and turf wars between CFOs, CSOs and, quite often, business-unit heads.

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Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. The innovation portfolio.

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

“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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Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

” Health care. And the Health Care Transformation Task Force , a newly formed coalition of private insurers and provider organizations in the U.S., And providers want the flexibility to deliver outcomes in the best, most innovative, and most efficient way possible without being micromanaged by the customer.

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Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives. Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. Across Africa, many unemployed men have managed small businesses, at least once in their lives.

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Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 14

Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

For those interested in improving the management of our organizations (hopefully that matches the readership of this blog) there is value in reading their views on six sigma. Stuart Hunter – Books and articles by Roger Hoerl – The Importance of Management Improvement – William G.

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Rogers Deming Six Sigma Engineering 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

During our careers, we have worked in industry, academia, clinical medicine, and government and have managed successful academia-industry collaborations. The Leading Edge of Health Care. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum. Practicing physicians.

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Conflict of Interest Pharmaceuticals Policies Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Its the managers responsibility to lead their employees, manage performance, and provide guidance. Yes, managers often interview job candidates or identify the most talented employees as part of a talent management program. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. This is how we conduct interviews.

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CIO Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy. They are more likely to use software to manage their back-office operations and customer relationships.

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Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Leading Change in Health Care. Fostering innovation. SBMs have started to lower the cost and improve the value of health insurance coverage. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

CareMore’s longtime focus had been providing patient-centered, managed care to seniors in California, Arizona, Nevada, and Virginia under Medicare Advantage. The Future of Health Care. In each engagement, community health workers strive to understand a patient’s beliefs and social context.

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Health Care Metrics Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. No longer were technology companies main customers old, white executive managers who got their jollies off on the largest feature set at the cheapest price. What gives? What was my title?

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2012

The innovations that made these companies worth billions of dollars could be classified as computer hardware and software infrastructure. No longer were technology companies main customers old, white executive managers who got their jollies off on the largest feature set at the cheapest price. What gives? What was my title?

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Venture Capitalist Software Entrepreneur Engineering 17

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Aggravated and depressed by the decline of their core memory business in the 1980s, Intel’s top management struggled for strategic clarity. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

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Levitt Disaggregation Kaizen Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. This last article is the one that really grabbed my attention.

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NGO Chemicals Guidelines Telecommunications 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Meanwhile, the alternative — housing subsidies, unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, even incarceration costs — generate huge social costs. Tapping into this talent has implications for HR management, calling for new approaches to screening talent, including sourcing, selection, and role definition.

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Organization Chief Operating Officer Education Software 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

As health care reform evolves, large public institutions that offer a health safety net have some advantages over privately owned enterprises. Those are all assets in an era of health care reform. I head one of these institutions: Dallas-based Parkland Health and Hospital Systems. A mission-driven payer mix.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

From the start we asked: What are the complexities of financing these homes? Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. And David Smith's entry on the financial challenge shows that flexibility can be born out of financing options as well.

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Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The starting point for achieving value in any health care system is to measure outcomes. Through regular interaction with our global network of value innovators, we at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement ( ICHOM ) have developed a 10-step implementation “blueprint” that any provider can follow.

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Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8