Mills Scofield

JANUARY 8, 2014

This guest post is by fellow mentor/advisor to the Social Innovation Fellowship (formerly C.V. This is a must read for innovators and entrepreneurs of any type. Fortunately, this young social innovator lives on to fight another day, stronger for the experience. The social innovation sector is filled with perverse incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. The Future of Health Care. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 9, 2010

He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. He’s also a multiple year nominee for Best Leadership Blog. Prove to Others That You’re Proving It to Yourself by Steve Farber (posted 11/22/10) Extreme Leadership is not a solo act; it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. More on that in an upcoming post).

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

Or we’re stretched thin, so gathering more resources will solve the problem. Working with limited time, budgets, and resources can force us to clarify the problem. Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them. Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them.” Kristen Cox.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

A concrete example comes from within my own company, McKesson, the largest health-care services firm in the US. A year later, we did acquire them — but rather than swallow RelayHealth whole, we wanted to preserve its innovative DNA and disseminate it across our company.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 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. The transformational force that has brought affordability and accessibility to other industries is disruptive innovation.

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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

JUNE 20, 2017

health care system spends almost a third of its resources — $750 billion annually — on unnecessary services and inefficient care. These tools are now being used across the continuum of care, from disease surveillance to chronic disease prevention to identifying patients who are at risk of deterioration.

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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. Carol Yepes/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Increasing value in health care is a top priority for health systems, payers, and policy makers across the globe, as health care costs continue to escalate and consume an ever-greater proportion of national expenditures. Taking the Pulse of Health Care Transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

More and more health care organizations are beginning to track their performance on outcomes – and they’re finding that getting started isn’t easy. Measuring outcomes requires redesigned workflows, enhanced coordination across departments, and investment in new resources. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

For a discipline so fundamentally altruistic, health care is oddly dysfunctional around relationships. Our full article describing social capital, its roles in health care, and strategies for building it in health care organizations is available here (PDF). Leading Health Care Innovation.

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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. 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. Most have begun this journey with pilot projects to obtain valid measures of outcomes and cost for one or two medical conditions. Insight Center.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

Kurt Newman became a pediatric surgeon because he was attracted to the innovative culture and the extraordinary variety of problems doctors encounter at children’s hospitals, as well as the dramatic recoveries children can make. The payback is so meaningful that it draws people who are creative and innovative and thinking differently.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Some business pundits today believe innovation ignites better in startups than in large, established corporations. In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Laura Schneider FOR HBR. ” I disagree.

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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. In 2015, we conducted a workforce analysis that revealed a significant shortage of women in leadership at our company. The Future of Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Curious Cat

JANUARY 22, 2015

” He discussed Paul O’Neill’s influence on his thinking ; I agree that Paul has done some very impressive work in health care. Here is a good example of why: Managing Our Way to Economic Success, Two Untapped Resources: potential information and employee creativity. Bill Hunter and John Hunter.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2018

and gender parity is still not reflected in medical leadership. —positions that typically direct the mission and control the resources at medical centers. For example, women do not achieve promotions or advancement to leadership positions at the same rate as their male peers. System-wide policies that disadvantage women.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. The innovation portfolio.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Aging populations will drain national resources. Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs. Youth violence will grow.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 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. Health systems are at a crossroads. The reason: half of the population lacked health insurance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The good news is that millennial men are changing the way they define leadership and demanding work that fits around their families. The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care. Special Forces Innovation: How DARPA Attacks Problems. Gender Innovation Managing people Technology' Consulting on the Cusp of Disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Patients deemed sick enough to be admitted to the hospital spent hours in the emergency department “boarding,” or awaiting transfer to an inpatient bed that was already occupied, further burdening already insufficient resources. Teams conducted dozens of tabletop and live walk through trials of new pathways and innovations.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2013

In response, our team at the Global Health Delivery Project at Harvard launched an online platform to generate and disseminate knowledge in health care delivery. In health care, we thought, they could be a rapid, practical means for diverse professionals to share insights and tactics. The Launch.

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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. All patients would designate health care proxies. Good end-of-life care is a fundamental component of quality medical care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Fueled by Asia's resource needs, Africa has seen rapid compounded real growth — rates exceeding 5% a year (per IMF data) — over the past decade. But the interesting point here is that this growth is not confined to the natural resource sector; the increased economic activity has led to the development of complementary sectors.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

It has trained more than 700 unskilled and displaced workers for well-paid jobs with defined career ladders in the biotech and health care sectors. It has also upgraded the skills of more than 1,000 incumbent workers in the health care, hospitality, property services, automotive services, and green industries.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2016

For an upcoming MIT symposium on the topic, we’re focusing on four main themes: customer expectations, product enhancements, collaborative innovations, and organizational forms. Collaborative innovations. Companies must become more innovative to better respond to the highly competitive, global business environment.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2013

Aging populations will drain national resources. Democracy will disappear as power shifts to developing countries with authoritarian regimes where no one cares about voice and participation. Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs. Youth violence will grow.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

I have long believed that innovation is not just about creating new products or services; it's also about rethinking the very nature of an organization's relationships. At Starbucks, this shift is values can be seen in the health-care coverage and stock options we have long offered to part-time employees. We must go deeper.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. The Future of Health Care. To many at the time, we were fools. Great physicians would never choose to treat Medicaid patients.

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