The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 1, 2021

. “This longstanding problem is mainly driven by the imbalance between increasing patient flow and the shortage of emergency room capacity,” the researchers explain. “While the ER is supposed to be a safety net of the health care system, the overcrowding problem has strained this safety net and posits various threats.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Physician discontent over deteriorating working conditions and growing risks to patient care has risen to alarming levels in European hospitals. To understand physicians’ evolving reality, Bain’s biennial Europe Front Line of Health Care Survey tracks European practitioners’ attitudes, priorities and decision-making power.

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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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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

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. Health systems have to meet three fundamental objectives: Improve the health of individuals and the populations they serve.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

At Sanford Health, a $4.5 billion rural integrated health care system, we deliver care to over 2.5 Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Sven Krobot/EyeEm/Getty Images. million people in 300 communities across 250,000 square miles.

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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 9, 2011

Many communities in emerging markets receive their front-line primary health care from community health care workers. In South Africa, for instance, 50 percent of all health care providers are community workers. In fact, Vodafone spun out the work through the creation of a Mobile Health Unit in January 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

No matter how many creative solutions we drum up to improve quality of care and service in the U.S. health system, they won’t do much good if only a few clinicians and institutions know about them and apply them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The acceleration of digital technology has enabled the disruption of many disparate industries. Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data. Mobile Apps and Individuals’ Engagement in Self-Care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

health care system. The reason: It could liberate health care data for game-changing new uses, including empowering patients as never before. Let them share it with whomever they wish in the course of their own health care journey. Health Care’s New Frontier. Insight Center.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

They start by sharing the “Seductive Seven” which is a list of common tactics organizations may use to respond to problems: More technology. For example, we can see data dashboards, organization charts, spreadsheets, new strategic plans, or the latest new technology trend bouncing around social media. The Seductive Seven. More money.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S.

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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

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

MAY 26, 2014

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. In our group at Merck, we are witnessing this opportunity firsthand as we collaborate with start-ups in the areas of digital health, big data, and health IT.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 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. At first blush, it would appear that entrepreneurship is alive and well in health care. Think instead about other industries.

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Health Care Biotechnology Mayo Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In a new survey of 613 global health systems executives and consultants conducted by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services and sponsored by Siemens, 91 percent said that great opportunity lies ahead for healthcare because of the disruption offered by new technologies and new business models. The Power of Digitalizing Health Care.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 19, 2020

I’ve written previously about the apprehension many doctors feel towards the roll out of electronic health records (EHR), with many expressing concern that they are a considerable administrative burden and get in the way of high quality care. “A Google search is easy,” the researchers say. “

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

For decades, experts and policy wonks have argued that health care is a uniquely inefficient industry, insulated from conventional market forces that operate in the rest of the economy. Poorly performing hospitals do not feel pressure from patients to improve quality because standard market forces do not apply to health care.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Institutions purchase hundreds of individual, siloed technologies — each with its own work processes, training, and user interfaces — based on what the market offers. The result is a constellation of technologies that rarely connect, to the detriment of patient safety, quality, and value.

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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

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Army’s efforts to come to grips with a dramatic upsurge in war-related behavioral conditions over the past 13 years holds valuable lessons for bringing precision mental health care to the civilian world. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Exploring cutting edge ways to lower costs and improve quality.

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Health Care System Report Information Technology 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. Carol Yepes/Getty Images. But back to the insurers.

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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

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%. Over half of the $2.6

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

Can reverse innovation — innovations originating from poor countries — provide one important answer? the approach is to spend more money on major technological advances and come up with innovative products and solutions. Actually, the artificial leg has to be higher-quality than in the U.S. In the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

health care system in ways big and small that would either build on or radically revamp the Affordable Care Act (ACA). All will claim to reduce costs and improve quality. During the presidential campaign, Americans will be bombarded with proposals to improve the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Technological improvements in health care have given us the quality of life we enjoy today. But chronic conditions, end-of-life care, and an aging society will bankrupt the United States if it doesn’t make dramatic changes to its health care system. health care is stuck in the craft mode.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

But in health care, few things work as expected. One big reason why is that hospitals purchase technologies without requiring that they communicate with each other. Health care’s safety and quality challenges are exacerbated by its procurement problem. Health care is woefully underengineered.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

If you've not yet heard of telemedicine or think that it's not a great way to deliver quality health care, you may want to read this. Telemedicine, made possible by the availability of mobile networks, is revolutionizing health care. The innovation is in the software that provides the connectivity.

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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. Which technology tools will meet the demographic, clinical, and business needs for these services? Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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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. An efficient business gets the most output possible, given current technology, from every dollar spent.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Conflict in health care has dominated the news in the United States lately with the political showdown over the Affordable Care Act followed by the shaky launch of the federal health insurance exchange. We have been engaged in health care negotiation and conflict resolution for two decades.

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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. health care system.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

By doing so, they are testing the limits of the potential power of repurposing online retail innovations that consumers have become accustomed to in varied industries and potentially revamping healthcare in the process. Healthcare innovations like these raise intriguing possibilities. Consider the case of Proteus Digital Health.

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