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Solving the Health Care Cost Crisis

Harvard Business Review

Kaplan , Harvard Business School professors and authors of the HBR article How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care , explain why providers must start with proper measurement. Michael Porter and Robert S.

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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The health care industry has survived economically by cross-subsidizing margin shortfalls in one activity with the revenues generated from others. But the very existence of these cross-subsidies is symptomatic of deep flaws in the health care reimbursement system. Kaplan and Michael E.

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What Health Care Really Costs

Harvard Business Review

Kaplan, Harvard Business School professor and coauthor of the HBR article How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care. Featured Guest: Robert S. Download this podcast.

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How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

Harvard Business Review

health care system in ways big and small that would either build on or radically revamp the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We reviewed four strategies: the current health care system’s trajectory as is; comprehensive demand-side reform; aggressive supply-side reform; and a combination of demand-side and supply-side reform.

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Get Your Boss Out of Your Bedroom

Harvard Business Review

And yet this illusion to which we so desperately cleave — health care is a private industry! Funneling health insurance access through corporations just adds one more layer of complexity to a system that is already a complete muddle. And the health care sector is an industry no other industry should want to be tethered to.

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Strong Patient-Provider Relationships Drive Healthier Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

“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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Innovators are Bracket Busters

Harvard Business Review

Solutions for the big social system challenges we face, including education, health care, energy, and entrepreneurship, require more than incremental change. Saul Kaplan is the Founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory (BIF). Don't allow anyone to say you aren't allowed to go to the big dance.