Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Many of those working in the consolidating health care industry will immediately validate several of the authors’ key findings, including: Bureaucracy is growing, not shrinking. Transforming Health Care. Kelvin Murray/Getty Images. What about solutions? ” I beg to differ. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

No one wants to toil away at a health care improvement effort only to see that progress disappear as systems and processes revert to the old way of doing things. Leading health care organizations recognize that improving care isn’t enough; having a systematic approach to sustaining improvement is equally important.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In this article, I’d like to share the insights we’ve gleaned from the model’s first full year of operation, which hopefully organizations in health care and many other industries will find useful. It ensures alignment of goals, resources, and people. Continuous improvement is a constant quest.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. With the advent of digital imaging, Kodak was outpaced by other companies that could better achieve consumer goals. What Business Are We In?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

In this leadership philosophy, the main goal of the leader is to serve, and to share power and put the needs of team members first, to help your team develop and perform as highly as possible. In my 17 years at Kellogg, I held positions ranging from Legal, to Operations, to Senior Vice President of Global Human Resources.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Calls for teamwork in health care are as persistent as they are hard to heed. Prior research in healthcare and other industries makes clear the importance of team stability for team performance in general, yet stable teams are not always possible with chaotic 24/7 operations and heterogeneous work schedules. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The company begins with a goal, such as safely carrying 250 passengers nonstop from New York to London in under six hours, and follows a disciplined approach to identify the components and subsystems that meet those requirements. We then plop them into an ICU or operating room and hope that they somehow work together.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Omada Health , a digital therapeutics firm focused on preventing obesity-related chronic conditions such as type 2 diabetes, has made significant strides in achieving both with the 120,000 prediabetics who have participated in its program. Transforming Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. health care keeps getting costlier. These astronomical costs are largely due to the way competition works in American health care. Transforming Health Care. Insight Center.

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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. health care quality and safety is abysmal: The evidence suggests that between 240,000 to 400,000 deaths occur each year due to medical errors. Define the goal. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers. Engage employees.

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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. Engage health systems in change. The HTA “anticipates delivering better health care while reducing costs” through its members’ collective work.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Many health care organizations today are striving to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and to be rewarded for accomplishing both. It makes much more economic and operational sense to create and leverage a central cadre of professionals than to ask each clinical unit, on its own, to acquire such expertise.

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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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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). Its network of twenty-three hospitals and 160 clinics provides more than half of all health care delivered in the region.

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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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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.”-Mark What was the key to his success?

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Those who benefit from collaborations, rather than become the victim of them, will log the biggest successes in business years ahead. The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Professional societies and associations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Building market share by delivering rich, intuitive experiences is a key goal for all organizations. For health insurers, this customer centricity is an imperative. Individual consumers now have increasing freedom to shop for health plans and to choose how they spend their healthcare dollars. Focus on the member experience.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

But there’s more than one kind of successful organization, and there are many kinds of productive workplaces. Do we hunger for individual achievement and personal recognition, or do we revel in team spirit and collective success? The formula for business success starts with what’s right for the people in the business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In all of the loud and necessary debates over how to reform health care in the United States before it bankrupts the country, there is one element that has been continually overlooked: the management systems employed by hospitals. Tell us what health-care content you’d like to see more of from HBR. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Consider HR's role in accelerating Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates' operational improvement initiative. This 4,500-employee Massachusetts healthcare group embarked on "Care Improvement" three years ago. We have a fairly good-sized Care Improvement department. We use our intranet for sharing stories about successes.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. With that goal, we thought carefully about each of our clinical service lines: Are we the best at this service line? Leading Change in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Several lessons have emerged from this experiment that are applicable in medical training and, indeed, throughout health care. Any patient can tell you that health care providers are uneven at best in their greeting and communication skills. Our program is a work in progress, but we have early indications of success.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2015

In this excerpt, they tell a story illustrating how vision is the key to successful transformation. He and his wife aren’t just race enthusiasts, they are social entrepreneurs: founders of Riders for Health , an organization that manages transportation systems for the delivery of health care in seven countries across sub-Saharan Africa.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Thus their primary goal should be to reduce patients’ fears. To do that, the team next looked inside and outside the health care for ideas about how to improve the hospital’s service. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. There is room for new ideas.”

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

Operations in a Connected World. Such a robot would not have to wait until after the meeting to be told what to do — it could immediately take initiative to accomplish tasks that help the team achieve its goals. The approach proved successful for emergency response planning. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

But nowhere is the potential of this new era of opportunity more apparent and exciting than it is in health care. They can pinpoint treatments that sustain health in a more precise way than ever before. For the volume-to-value paradigm shift in health care, predictive analytics, though rarely visible, is the essential enabler.

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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. Integration is key.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

Today, health systems operate on a spectrum of how involved patients are in the delivery of their care. On one end, traditional providers inform patients of their options, make a recommendation, and proceed to deliver care to a relatively passive patient. Care that is truly delivered by patients themselves.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

From Vague Goals to Concrete Deliverables. Government start-ups are often launched with broad mandates and vague goals like "solve the debt crisis and promote economic recovery," "reform health care," and "improve local schools." A common trap is to try to operate without confronting tough decisions and trade-offs early.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

How would we deliver care to a population overburdened with severe mental illness, food insecurity (the lack of consistent access to enough food to lead an active, healthy life) and early-onset chronic diseases — and do so in locations as disparate as Tennessee and Iowa? The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2018

” “Our goal,” it stated, “must be to develop the talents of all to their fullest.” ” Unfortunately, this goal hasn’t been met. One approach that has proven to be successful in recent years consists of targeted partnerships between business and education.

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