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

MARCH 2, 2018

While this “lab-bench to bedside” approach has improved healthcare globally, it can take years, even decades, for an innovation to get to market, often with limited input from patients themselves. This model isn’t just about getting greater patient feedback during the innovation process. Innovation Centers.

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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 challenge that we face — making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people — is not unique to health care.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

But it wasn’t until recent advances in the technology that people really began to take notice. But perhaps the most exciting advances in 3D printing can be found in the world of medicine, where 3D printing is starting to shake things up, especially as the cost of 3D printing drops and the technology becomes more accessible.

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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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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

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

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. The question, of course, is whether the term will help spur the fundamental changes that our health care sector so desperately needs.

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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

JUNE 13, 2017

Given that this intervention could prevent more suffering than many wonder drugs, one would expect that there would be zero market for a breathing machine that didn’t make lung-preventive ventilation as easy as possible. But in health care, few things work as expected. Health care is woefully underengineered.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

In health care, the Hippocratic Oath — “first, do no harm” — can hold as much sway in the board room as it does in the exam room. Among health care leadership, it can have the unintended effect of promoting inaction over change and innovation. health care has become akin to a smothered child—stifled and arrested.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In health care, value accrues to patients, insurers, and society at large. ” But most patients don’t embark on a health care experience with a thorough understanding of available treatment options and their anticipated health outcomes. Toward that end, several steps must be taken.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They can use their market power (they direct the bulk of health care dollars) and understanding of different consumer segments to create innovative products, services, and partnerships that address consumers’ needs. In the process, they can help move us all toward a low-cost, value-based health care system.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Fortunately, companies are becoming more aware that a data integrity insurance system is a necessity and are implementing new technologies into their business processes in order to safeguard against a data breach. Reports, customer transactions, and revenues can all be affected as a result of bad data.

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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). 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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

Historically, corporate Goliaths have taken one of two approaches to this kind of upstart competition—try to muscle them out of the market or bring them into the fold through acquisition. A concrete example comes from within my own company, McKesson, the largest health-care services firm in the US.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

Technology to the rescue? One of the promising areas supported by technology is at the intersection of the internet and online technologies with the physical world: the “internet of things” (IoT). The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. From athenahealth’s network data, we know that the average doctor spends just 60% of her time each year seeing patients and documenting their care. They’ve even partnered with H&R Block to streamline tax filing. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The pressures for fundamental change in health care have been building for decades, but meaningful change has been limited while the urgency of change only grows. There is only one real solution, which is to dramatically increase the value of health care. And with such deep societal concerns about health care spending?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2017

What makes marketing creative? Is a creative marketer more artist or entrepreneur? Historically, the term “marketing creative” has been associated with the words and pictures that go into ad campaigns. But marketing, like other corporate functions, has become more complex and rigorous.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Just as empowerment, team building and other processes apply to formal organizational structures, then teamings of independents can likewise benefit from the concepts. Teams of health care professionals, as found in clinics and hospitals. Through demands uncovered, develop programs and materials to meet markets.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

The Leading Edge of Health Care. But only 34% were actively piloting a digital technology in clinical practice. We looked at more than a dozen—both health care-specific programs with strong connections in the health care “ecosystem” and industry-agnostic programs. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. There's not a brand manager, health care administrator, CMO or CIO who wouldn't benefit big-time from benchmarking their own operations to this campaign's.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Organizations across sectors are looking closely at the technology to see what it can do for their business. In retail organizations, for example, marketing and sales has often provided significant value. trillion of value in marketing and sales across the world’s businesses and $1.2-$2 AI can create $1.4-$2.6

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2013

What can the health care industry do to help fight disease, while still maintaining its commitments to shareholders? While currently crippled by inadequate infrastructure in many countries, low- and middle-income countries will be the fastest-growing markets for pharmaceuticals and medical devices over the next decade.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2018

He introduced a strategic planning process directed from the center. Simplifying a bit, the chief explanations were these: First, that GE benefited from scale and dominant market positions in industrial businesses. It was developed by Japan and South Korea in the 1980s and is used widely by emerging markets from Brazil to India.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. The definition of a market, customer, partner, or even competitor is now a moving target.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. “‘Why us?’

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Boosting the productivity of health care is essential, given how fast this sector is growing. Health-care spending already accounts for 10% of GDP in developed economies and an average of 6% of GDP in the four leading emerging economies — Brazil, China, India, and Russia. We disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

It’s only recently, though, that advances in information technology have made it possible for predictive tools to access and manipulate big data, and to do so continuously — accelerating the generation of insights, and opening up opportunities to anticipate issues with unprecedented precision. They’re also sharing risk.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Many of these nonprofits use technology, but the way they transform perceived weaknesses into strengths — nonprofit judo — can inspire any social venture. Consider TalkingPoints, a nonprofit with a mission to increase student achievement by meaningfully connecting teachers and families through mobile technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces. The translation involves people and processes.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2016

The chief marketing officer at a major technology provider recently voiced concerns that I’ve heard from several other CMOs: “Our customers have gotten way ahead of our sales efforts. It’s a common issue in B2B markets. Too often, we’re not even getting invited to the dance.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2016

Digital usage in the form of transactions, customer and supplier interactions, and internal business processes, grew almost fivefold — and over the entire period, the leading sectors maintained an enormous lead in usage over everyone else. But the biggest differentiator of all comes from having a digitally empowered workforce.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2017

Where and When the Technology Might Be Deployed. By contrast, driverless vehicle adoption depends on overcoming three factors: infrastructure maturity, technology readiness, and regulation. Of the large markets, the U.S., Health care. How can we use driverless vehicles to reduce health care costs?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

One of the key tipping points in a market occurs when a company, in Christensen's language, overshoots a given market tier by providing them performance that they can't use. Are customer preferences and habits changing due to enabling technologies and/or changing social norms?

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Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2015

Goerner and others have described as the “S-Curve”, a pattern that is recognized by economists, physicists, scientists and marketers. The clinical and administrative support structures have tried to accommodate the autonomy of the clinician and at the same time manage the administrative support processes like any other business.

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