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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The health care industry has survived economically by cross-subsidizing margin shortfalls in one activity with the revenues generated from others. But the very existence of these cross-subsidies is symptomatic of deep flaws in the health care reimbursement system. Kaplan and Michael E.

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Get Your Boss Out of Your Bedroom

Harvard Business Review

And I needed the kind of advice that only a manager can give. But that's how the current kerfluffle over employer-provided health insurance covering contraception feels to me — about as comfortable as sitting down with my boss to talk Cialis. Not in the boardroom — but in the bedroom. Thank heavens.) Adam Smith 4eva!

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

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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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

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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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

In the last six years, a Harvard Business School team has worked with dozens of health care organizations to help them understand the true costs of their treatments for many medical conditions. One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. Gain senior leadership support.

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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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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. health care system. A hospital organized into these different unconnected units finds it difficult to adopt innovations that reduce costs across a patient’s complete cycle of care. Health Care’s New Frontier.