Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

This is especially true in health care. As health care organizations are being pressured to cut costs, reduce medical errors, and adopt both standardized processes and new innovations, providers are being asked to give up established and comfortable ways of working. The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

More training and communication. First, these leaders understand that achieving a goal is very different from eliminating a problem. A problem is only a problem within the context of a goal and a vision. Setting ambitious, clear goals forces us to move out of our comfort zone. More strategy. More reorganization.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 10, 2014

Jesse and Bob discuss several take-aways from Scaling Up Excellence: It’s a ground war, not just an air war: bombarding people with a training session or quick communication campaign doesn’t work; it requires pressing each person, division, and group to make one small change after another in what they believe, feel, or do.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Caring for the health and well-being of our fellow humans has always been viewed as a combination of art and science. With all the recent advances in technology, there is no doubt the health care industry as a whole gets an “A” in science. Some dysfunction may always exist in our health care systems.

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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. For years, the basic model for managing coordination in health care delivery has relied on what organizational scholars called role-based coordination. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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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

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. While this is new for health care, it has become routine in other complex, high-risk fields.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

It’s what health care might seem like to doctors, patients, and regulators around the world as new methods in machine learning offer more insights from ever-growing amounts of data. Poorer economies with limited access to trained physicians may benefit as well, as a host of diseases may be found and treated earlier.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable! He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. You still have until midnight December 14th to vote. Do You Really Need a Meeting to Make a Decision?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Health care remains one of the few services that require people to have a face-to-face interaction to obtain access. In January 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new provider reimbursement code for non–face-to-face health care services for patients who have chronic medical conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Provide financial security against the costs of ill-health. US health care costs are currently 17% of GDP ($2.5

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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 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.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Few recent trends in health care delivery have more power to improve population health, patient and provider experience, and hospital business models than virtual care. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The HR team needs to be prompt with calculating what the employee is owed, including the transfer of any health care policies they were covered under. should be handed over to the employee before they leave.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

How did he achieve such an impossible goal? Dr. Jivacate realized that he could not achieve his goal with expensive materials such as titanium, which is used in rich countries. Dr. Jivacate therefore instituted training programs for those amputees who showed a special interest in the fitting process.

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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

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. Leading Change in Health Care. A clinician by training, she had previous experience managing quality-improvement programs at a large national payer. Insight Center.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Even the most distinguished experts (the MDs and PhDs and MBAs who run the health care and criminal justice systems and the largest manufacturing corporations) think that it's naive and hopeless to expect the vast majority of people to change. Change doesn't involve just "selling"; it requires "training.".

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Even the most distinguished experts (the MDs and PhDs and MBAs who run the health care and criminal justice systems and the largest manufacturing corporations) think that it's naive and hopeless to expect the vast majority of people to change. Change doesn't involve just "selling"; it requires "training.".

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Women on Business

JULY 12, 2012

Companies like Weyerhaeuser understand that caring about the environment and the impact a company makes can coincide with making a profit and providing shareholder value. reported that IBM, Motorola, Microsoft, Cisco, and Verizon are partnering with five Chicago High Schools to offer career training for students.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2017

When it comes to training and workforce development, lots of them. In a 2014 survey , 55% of executives said a major constraint to investing in training was that they did not know how to measure success. The metrics we track include: productivity, cost savings in recruitment and training, quality, retention, and speed to promotion.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Elite medical training programs proudly proclaim that they are preparing future healthcare leaders. But with their focus on clinical disease management and research, training programs actually offer little in the way of true leadership training – authentic experience that helps young doctors develop the leadership skills they will need.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2015

These individual objectives are also aligned with larger organizational goals to ensure team members are prioritizing effectively. Yet much of what healthcare institutions need to do—facilities management, procurement, accounting, human resources—has little to do with the skills developed during medical training.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The transformation of health care continues at a rapid pace, bringing opportunities and challenges for health care providers to deliver improved clinical outcomes at lower costs. And many health care systems continue to struggle to reliably deliver evidence-based care.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The Patient Support Corps seeks to change that by giving patients the tools to make more-informed choices about their care. The idea of patient navigators is a relatively recent phenomenon in health care. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Harold Freeman pioneered the concept in 1990 in Harlem. Insight Center.

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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. We then, in turn, trained local lab workers, who then trained others.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2018

This empowers physicians to support the quality and cost goals inherent in a health system’s value-based care model. Below, we offer three recommendations for health systems looking to do this. The Future of Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. Creating better outcomes at reduced cost.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

For many low-wage workers in India, basic skills training can be the difference between economic empowerment and persistent poverty. Workers within and across production lines were randomized into treatment (PACE training) and control (no PACE training) groups. PACE-trained workers displayed higher self-regard and sociability.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. What would a system to achieve these goals look like in practice? All patients would designate health care proxies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Much has been written about the troubling lack of women in leadership roles generally and in health care in particular. The Future of Health Care. We’ve set a goal to increase the number of women in management by four percentage points within two years, and we are close to attaining that goal.

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