The Horizons Tracker

MAY 14, 2019

When you think of AI in healthcare it’s perhaps common to think of software products that can help provide the kind of earlier diagnoses promoted by companies like DeepMind and IBM. It represents the clearest indicator from the FDA that regulation is coming to AI-driven products in healthcare.

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Power Health Care Software Technology 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

hospitals and health care groups have experimented over the past decade with new management structures and alternative payment models to provide quality health care at lower cost. It may sound odd to suggest that the industry overlooked physicians as it set about reshaping the health care system.

Health Care 8

Health Care Resistance Cost Quality 8

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.

Health Care 15

Health Care Levitt Film Chemicals 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. health care system woefully underperform relative to those made in health care in other countries. Yet, investments in the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. Transforming Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

Bush’s cabinet as secretary of health and human services. With the failure of the American Health Care Act , recently proposed by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives, it is clear that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will continue to serve millions of Americans for the foreseeable future.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Term loans , SBA loans , lines of credit and invoice financing are just a few of the options available to small business owners. Set up a Dedicated Workspace If you plan on working from home , you will need dedicated workspace to stay productive. As a startup, your finances will likely be very thin as is.

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Tips Franchising Cost Travel 95

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Without these term limits, the congress has no reason to include themselves in the health care system they impose on us. However, I have recently changes my tune. There is motivation to limit their own pay to that near what their constituents make.

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Blog Politics Short-term Long-term 415

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

In response, these companies made three significant shifts in their offerings: (1) they turned services into products; (2) they improved convenience while lowering cost; and (3) they leveraged big data to provide tailored customer solutions. Turn services into products. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Wireless Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2014

Instead of simply providing health insurance, savvy employers are tackling health care costs by supporting the whole employee—everything from their finances to their career development to physical health. The health of the American workforce is declining , reducing both productivity and company earnings.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Morale Company 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cooper Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The news that health care in Zimbabwe can be paid for with peanuts (and sometimes corn and goats) made the front page of the New York Times. This peanut-finance system, which turned the peanuts into food for hospital patients, seems quaint, like tales from 19th century America of rural doctors taking chickens for treating chicken pox.

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Finance Strategy Banking Retail 14

Deming Institute

JUNE 11, 2018

The bulk of Muller’s research is devoted to case studies in colleges, elementary schools, health care systems, policing, the military, business, finance, philanthropy and foreign aid. Under McNamara, the armed forces sought to meet productivity targets of bombing sorties, shells fired and body counts.

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Metrics Deming Scientific Management Proposal 31

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

If you don’t understand finance and accounting, enroll in a course immediately. Read your leading-edge industry publications, Forbes , other finance journals, and popular business books. If you don’t hold a finance or operations position, consider cross training. Address the nuts and bolts of business too.

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Execution How To Finance Competitive Advantage 62

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. EnableSoft, is engaged in offering game changing software products and services to the business and financial services industry, healthcare and a dozen other markets.

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Software Insurance System Operations 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here are some of the challenges that I’ve observed: Product management. Successful IoT plays require more than simply adding connectivity to a product and charging for service — something many companies don’t immediately understand. When product-based companies add services and connectivity, operational requirements increase.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Company Engineering 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 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

This is a tale first pioneered by insurance companies in the 1950s to convince older Americans that they weren't being ejected from the productive workforce, but rather had the freedom from work. For example, the California Health Care Foundation is matching Encore Fellows with community health clinics across that state.

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Productivity Products Finance Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

First, the finance chief is often first among equals on the board of directors and can help engage the board more productively on strategy. Working together, finance and strategy executives can forge better links between resource allocation and strategic goals. There are two reasons for this.

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Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

There’s a tendency to assume that the salesperson lost because their product was inferior in some way. However, in the majority of interviews buyers rank all the feature sets of the competing products as being roughly equal. For “price conscious” buyers, product price is a top decision-making factor.

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Price Health Care Committee Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Many adult health care outcomes are shaped in childhood. Current models of pediatric primary care do little to address these “non-medical” causes and consequently have been largely ineffective in preventing adult disease. Reforming primary care pediatrics therefore has great potential for improving overall U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Metrics Efficiency Absenteeism 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2017

To date, only small steps have been taken at most health care systems (for example, clarifying the costs of specific tests during the test-ordering process), and new clinical analytics systems that offer better insights into costs and efficiency often aren’t integrated into day-to-day clinical care. Insight Center.

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Cost Management Health Care System 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Everyone knows that dentists, nurses, social workers and respiratory therapists are all health care professionals. Distinctions must be drawn into three consulting categories (and percentages of their occurrence in the marketplace): Vendors sell products which were produced by others. Let the buyer beware.

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Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 64

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Young scientists will invent energy-saving or health-promoting products, incubate new ventures while still in college, and sell them to markets eager for ways to control energy or health care costs. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs.

Health Care 15

Health Care Merchandising Incubator Airlines 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

We face a public health emergency. Without adequate financing, ministries of health and even private hospitals in developing countries often don''t have the resources needed to purchase diagnostic equipment, train workers, and ensure access to appropriate treatment. Corporate social responsibility Health PEPFAR GIS'

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Self-driving capabilities can boost safety and driver productivity. What products will be relevant in this evolving future where fleets and product liability become more important? How can we finance fleets through leasing and/or mobility securitization? Health care. Financial services. Public policy.

Automotive 8

Automotive Transportation Health Care Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

competitiveness strikes a pessimistic tone about certain demographic facts — the education gap between young people and the jobs which are and will be available, the aging of the American population, and the related rise in health care costs. In the context of a not-yet-entirely-settled system of healthcare finance in the U.S.,

Health Care 10

Health Care Human Capital Education Insurance 10

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. Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. The ideas have also been embraced by public policy makers, health plans, and the general public.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies. It’s not just products. Experimentation is vital.

Health Care 8

Health Care Venture Capitalist Strategic Fit Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Pearson, the educational publisher, measures the efficacy of its products to improve educational outcomes. ” Health care. And the Health Care Transformation Task Force , a newly formed coalition of private insurers and provider organizations in the U.S., Required Capabilities.

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Incentives Health Care Education Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

The traditional economy provides us with most of the basic necessities of life: food, shelter, health care, clothing, transportation, and energy. The autonomous economy is where intelligent machines, robots, artificial intelligence, big data, and high-speed digital communication power production. Sponsored by Accenture.

Retail 8

Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2015

But with the rapid implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), CNOs are now expected to master new trends in health care information technologies to engage hospital leaders in strategic discussions about major technology investments. But it’s not just technology causing this learning overload.

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Six Sigma Health Care Supply Chain Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

What's standing in the way of better health care just might be HMOs — whose overweening concern with profit means that Americans pay the most among developed nations for health care, but have seen the smallest gains in life expectancy (among other measures that matter). Beancounters, listen up. Or is it trivial?

Health Care 15

Health Care Long-term Finance Education 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

The most digital companies see outsized growth in productivity and profit margins. Right behind it are media, finance, and professional services, all of which have far more sophisticated digital capabilities than the rest of the economy. But what are the key attributes of a digital leader?

Industry 8

Industry Benchmarking Supply Chain Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2013

They created and maintained a close connection to frontline staff — what Jim Womack , the expert in lean production and thinking, calls “going to gemba ” — Japanese for “the actual place.”. At the breakfasts he asked, “What rules did you break to make your care great?” Leading Health Care Innovation. Ask four questions.

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Crisis Health Care Quality Welch 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Marketplaces allow people to do apples-to-apples comparisons of health insurance products and prices through an online portal. By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing. Leading Change in Health Care. A new consumer mindset. Insight Center.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care Cost Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2011

When you deny access to education, finance, housing, and health care, the poor remain poor. We can and should use innovation to create micro homes , micro finance, micro insurance, micro grids, and so on; all of these innovations can remove the one thing above all others that keeps the poor in a cycle of poverty: insecurity.

Microfinance 12

Microfinance IPO Bottom-up Finance 12