Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Leaders in government, business, and health care must address these persistent disparities at the national, state, and local levels, as both an ethical and an economic imperative. Promote a diverse health care workforce. Deliver patient-centered care. years in 1970 to 3.8

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Quality Report 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Let’s hope that’s true for “value” in health care. Where other mantras – such as quality or managed care – have failed to galvanize the system’s diverse stakeholders, value may have a chance. What seems special about the term is that, seemingly simple, it is actually complex and subtle. And it is intuitively appealing.

Health Care 8

Health Care Porter Long-term Short-term 8

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Technology Peer Review 8

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. Traditional care providers can and must fight back.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

At 32, she had advanced professionally from health care consulting to investment management, with an MBA in the middle. Throughout her time away from work, Shannon had kept up with the business and IT side of health care. That's true for any job search, but it's critical if you've had a long absence.

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Long-term Health Care Tactics Skills 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. Reducing the rate at which health care costs grow, and the proportion of U. health system grew by nearly 75%.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2018

We started working with the management and staff of the perioperative unit in 2014 to develop a more systematic, long-term approach for improving patient handoffs from the operating room (OR) to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU). The goal of this stage was to help care providers effectively enact the new protocol.

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Long-term Janis Quality Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

we fret that our health care system costs too much. But, given the structure of health insurance, the question should not be “Why are prices so high?” The lack of price sensitivity on the demand side of the health care market cannot but influence strategies on the supply side. The Long-Term Goal.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Price Reference 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

For too long, employers have outsourced management of their employees’ health care benefits to those with little incentive to improve value. This arrangement does not address the fundamental cost drivers of unnecessary care and avoidable complications. Engage health systems in change.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Company Presenteeism 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

DECEMBER 9, 2015

It is a widely held belief among health care leaders that comparing their hospitals and clinics to peers is very important. Benchmarking seems to assure leaders that as long as their organization’s performance is 50% of the national average or better, things are okay. Define the goal. Leading Change in Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

While the current debates over the Affordable Care Act (ACA) revolve around the individual mandate and the exchanges, one of the most important features of the law doesn’t take effect until 2018: the so-called Cadillac tax. As a result, in the near term, the ACA will have minimal impact on employer-sponsored insurance (ESI).

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Policies Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Major change also takes a long time to implement — between five and seven years on average — and the performance improvements that are achieved rarely last. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Organizational transformation is notoriously difficult. In healthcare, change is even harder than in most industries.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2012

Recently my fellow HBR blogger Daniel Markovitz suggested that stretch goals can be demotivating, and should be replaced by confidence-building "quick wins." The key to integrating the two is to carve quick wins out of long-term goals — so that each small success is a building block towards achieving a broader challenge.

Goal 12

Goal Short-term NGO Long-term 12

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Participative System Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The focus is on the near term. Vital though near-term effectiveness is, the exchanges hold a longer-term potential—they can help reshape the organization, delivery, and financing of insurance. To do a good job the exchanges have at hand a number of important regulatory powers along lines that liberals have long endorsed.

Insurance 10

Insurance Goal Health Care Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The UN, for example, has outlined 17 broad Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. The goals include eliminating poverty, offering affordable and clean energy, achieving gender equality, protecting ecosystems, increasing responsible consumption and production, and much more. Progress is measured with 169 targets.

Execution 11

Execution Incentives How To Committee 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Sometimes the endless discussion about burnout in health care creates its own form of burnout — a sense of hopelessness about being able to stop an epidemic. Unfortunately, the health care environment adds stresses and rewards that are external to the care of patients and that demand a qualitatively different response.

Health Care 8

Health Care Stress Environment Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C.,

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2017

When organizations introduce new processes or systems, or when they want to stimulate performance for certain business practices, they often assemble dedicated task forces, assign them specific goals, and identify deadlines and financial rewards. Communication about the initiative made it very clear that this was a one-time incentive.

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Incentives Compliance Health Care Report 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

Last night, President Obama laid out a set of goals and proposals for his next year in office, with a substantial portion of the speech focusing on business and economic issues. Hiring Veterans and the Long-Term Unemployed. Obama said he plans to partner with CEOs to encourage the hiring of the long-term unemployed.

Insourcing 8

Insourcing Health Care Proposal Meyer 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

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. That is, we are after real shared value. In partnership with the U.S. Redefine ROI.

Health Care 8

Health Care ROI NGO Long-term 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

The term “paradigm shift” is a well-worn term. He was responsible for ten hospitals spanning the West Coast to the Indian Ocean and health care for eight hundred thousand patients. In these cases, their boss’s behaviors were impacting their emotional and physical health in very negative ways. .

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 132

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2017

But we hear this kind of thing all the time from leaders in industries as varied as financial services, education, pharmaceuticals, and health care. One of our studies (Kandi’s research on executive-level health care leaders) confirms this. And life is just too short to be unhappy at work. Monique Valcour.

Stress 15

Stress Health Care Emotional Intelligence Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Prices for specialty drugs in the United States are out of control, with spending rising much faster than in many other health care domains. If a drug costs a lot, that’s OK only if it makes people so healthy that it reduces their spending on other forms of health care. It does not take a truly long-term view.

Price 8

Price Health Care Proposal Cost 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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Kaplan Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

They have no idea how his past achievements relate to his future interests and development goals. Second, it should meaningfully link your past successes to your near and long-term development needs and suggest the kinds of assignments that would help to achieve those objectives. But what if that's not so? How would they know?

Career 9

Career Short-term Long-term Health Care 9

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.

Health Care 9

Health Care Sharpe Document Cost 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

Working together, finance and strategy executives can forge better links between resource allocation and strategic goals. In the case of one North American health care company, the CSO set up a planning council that included the CFO to discuss strategic issues, growth opportunities, and funding needs.

Strategy 8

Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2011

Our reluctance to stick our collective neck out has everything to do with the psychology of motivation — specifically, how we think about the goals we pursue. Whenever we see our goals — whether they are organizational or personal — in terms of what we have to lose, we have what's called a prevention focus.

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Motivation Health Care Long-term Innovation 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

Following the global economic crisis of 2008, large bonuses and stock options have been held responsible for overly risky behavior and short-term strategies. On routine tasks where learning is not necessary, highlighting performance goals works great. Of course, the task of a top manager is not a routine one.

Execution 8

Execution Incentives Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

We conservatively estimate that the related costs of diabetes — including medication, supplies, hospital care, and the treatment of complications — will exceed $1 trillion a year by 2045. That’s why cities need to work together with a broad alliance of health care leaders and community organizers.

Globalization 8

Globalization Health Care System Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2017

The report also highlighted that companies across many sectors, such as manufacturing and health care, have captured less than 30% of the potential from their data and analytics investments. As Google pursued its goal of transitioning into an AI-first company, it followed a similar portfolio-based approach.

Insurance 11

Insurance Video Long-term Project 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The traditional fee-for-service reimbursement model is widely acknowledged to be a major driver of escalating health care costs. Harvard Pilgrim agreed to join the effort because it recognized that traditional payment models were unlikely to help control rising health care costs. The Motives of the Pilot’s Members.

Insurance 8

Insurance Health Care How To Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

These deficiencies are as common in health care and education as they are in manufacturing and retail. and then devising metrics for monitoring progress over the short and long terms. But their effect over long periods shows how profound — even radical — those simple management practices are.

Management 8

Management Benchmarking Short-term Incentives 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

APRIL 18, 2021

Had I not met naturopathic physician Andrew Rubman of the Southbury Clinic in Southbury, Connecticut, who taught me about healing the root problem, I would probably have been on prednisone and Xanax all this time, still suffering from hives yet with even more health challenges caused by the side effects of the medications.

Diversity 137

Diversity Short-term Root Cause Analysis Class 137

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Transforming Health Care. Dr. Willig found that two-thirds of patients who committed suicide were seen in a health care setting in the month before their deaths. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. How leading providers are delivering value for patients. PRO tools can help stimulate those conversations.

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Report Mayo Health Care Survey 8