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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 yet this illusion to which we so desperately cleave — health care is a private industry! Funneling health insurance access through corporations just adds one more layer of complexity to a system that is already a complete muddle. And the health care sector is an industry no other industry should want to be tethered to.

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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.

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

Harvard Business Review

And Michael Porter and Mark Kramer point to a big pot of gold for businesses that properly internalize the social consequences of their decisions instead of incorrectly externalizing them. Economy Finance' Doing so expands one’s sense of both the room to improve performance and the levers that might be pulled to do so.

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

Harvard Business Review

And Michael Porter and Mark Kramer point to a big pot of gold for businesses that properly internalize the social consequences of their decisions instead of incorrectly externalizing them. Economy Finance' Doing so expands one’s sense of both the room to improve performance and the levers that might be pulled to do so.

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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

From the start we asked: What are the complexities of financing these homes? And David Smith's entry on the financial challenge shows that flexibility can be born out of financing options as well. How do you get energy and infrastructure into such dwellings? How do you get corporations to invest in a significant way? Triple the U.S.

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