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. Sensitivity to operations.

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Health Care Content Chief Information Officer Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

Voice-powered technologies such as Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, and Cortana, are changing the way people shop, drive cars, and manage their homes. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. We piloted a real-time, hands-free, voice-prompted checklist process.

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Health Care Guidelines Technology Content 8

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.

Health Care 87

Health Care Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Politics 87

Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. Power outages are inevitable and can result in devastating implications for businesses that thrive on their data integrity.

Software 50

Software Insurance System Operations 50

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. Tightening that ship will not get you to zero.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

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. We then plop them into an ICU or operating room and hope that they somehow work together. Generally speaking, they don’t.

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Health Care Engineering System Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2015

For all the hard work to improve coordination and collaboration in health care, most hospitals are still organized into silos based on clinical specialties — and communication among them is uneven at best. Few industries present more teaming opportunities — or have a greater need for it — than health care.

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Health Care Team Chief Operating Officer Teamwork 8

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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Health Care Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Politics 74

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

If people still need to come to you for instructions on how to do something, that’s a sign that you need a clearly stated process so that anyone designated to handle a task can handle that task. To scale you need a playbook so that everyone has clarity about the processes and systems that get stuff done. And, you operate in a fishbowl.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 201

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Incentives Quality 8

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

For too long, employers have outsourced management of their employees’ health care benefits to those with little incentive to improve value. These zero-sum annual negotiations do not lead to the best care at the lowest cost. Don’t just enhance your position; change the game.

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Health Care Supply Chain Company Presenteeism 8

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.

Health Care 9

Health Care Insurance Industry Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

One of the main justifications for the mergers and acquisitions sweeping the health care industry is greater integration between the physicians and teams that care for patients. We at Mayo Clinic believe remaining independent and forging a clinical affiliation is a powerful alternative means for integrating care.

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Health Care Mayo Due Diligence Human Resources 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Operations Quality 8

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Information Technology Learning-by-Doing Information 8

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. Think about the power of this maxim. You talk about six critical behaviors that show leaders care. The very first one is to know your staff.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 132

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

The solution is called CareAi: an AI-powered computing system anchored on blockchain that can diagnose infectious diseases, such as malaria, typhoid fever, and tuberculosis, within seconds. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

Health Care 10

Health Care Technology System Library 10

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?

Health Care 9

Health Care How To Cost System 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

One of the most recent automation technologies to emerge is robotic process automation , or RPA. RPA is a category of software tools that enable complex digital processes to be automated by performing them in the same way a human user might perform them, using the user interface and following a set of predefined rules.

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Process Six Sigma Company Technology 12

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. The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. About the Author.

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Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I also argued in my last post that the CEO has a critical and unique role to play in process improvement, enabling a companys activities to be redesigned across functions and divisions. If the CEO doesnt play this role, process improvement stays comfortably within functional boundaries. He wasnt a process manager.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

Spurred by new payment models and new incentives, health systems are increasing their commitments to innovation in health care delivery. These innovations take the form of small but full-time clinical teams that are commissioned to redesign and deliver care to a particular patient population.

Health Care 8

Health Care Team Innovation System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The size and layout of a room, whether a bed sits in the middle or against a wall (even which wall), how much space is maintained for patients to walk versus how many beds or operating equipment can be accommodated, have not been considered predictors of health outcomes in the past. The Future of Health Care.

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Health Care Long-term Mayo Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

health care system, a new wave of analytics and technology could help dramatically cut costly and unnecessary hospitalizations while improving outcomes for patients. The Leading Edge of Health Care. The potential benefits from applying machine-learning analytics in health care are enormous. Insight Center.

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Health Care System Technology Airlines 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2014

Medical science has enabled our health care system to deliver outcomes that would have been impossible a generation ago, and advances in fields such as genomics and stem-cell therapy offer immense promise to further accelerate medical innovation. It’s no surprise that complex processes will face challenges in implementation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Policies Porter System 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

It brought the idea of building a safer health system to the forefront of the public’s mind. Since then, improving health care outcomes has become a central goal in everything from clinical training and research studies to government initiatives and political debate. Waves of Innovation in Surgical Quality and Safety.

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Innovation Health Care Operations Compliance 8

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.

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System Health Care Management COO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2018

In an age of such tremendous technological innovation, health care must step up and change outdated processes to help save lives by integrating and embracing all patient data to identify deterioration sooner. The Future of Health Care. Sepsis can be such a process. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Health Care System Information Review 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

By incorporating design thinking and design principles into their planning process, the hospital’s executives, supported by external designers, have turned the hospital into a showplace that has won a number of safety, quality, and design awards — including a nomination for the prestigious Dutch Design Award. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Airlines CFO Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Many hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic , are implementing a variety of strategies to improve the patient experience —an issue that’s rapidly becoming a top priority in health care. The Accountable Care Act now links performance related to patient-experience metrics to reimbursement.

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Health Care COO Operations Storytelling 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

After all, embedding AI across the business requires significant investment in talent and upgrades to the tech stack as well as sweeping change initiatives to ensure AI drives meaningful value, whether it be through powering better decision-making or enhancing consumer-facing applications. Insight Center. Adopting AI. Sponsored by SAS.

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Supply Chain Retail Technology Learning-by-Doing 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

But in health care, few things work as expected. Health care’s safety and quality challenges are exacerbated by its procurement problem. Manufacturers have been slow to embrace interoperability, which would allow health care technologies to share data with one another.

Technology 8

Technology Health Care Wireless System 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

Today, health systems operate on a spectrum of how involved patients are in the delivery of their care. On one end, traditional providers inform patients of their options, make a recommendation, and proceed to deliver care to a relatively passive patient. Care that is truly delivered by patients themselves.

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Insurance Health Care Licensing System 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

They are also more likely to be publicly insured, have fair-to-poor self-reported health, and be susceptible to lack of coordination within the health care system.” ” Overall, these patients make up just 5% of the patient population, but account for nearly half the spending on health care in the United States.

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Health Care How To System Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Just two years ago, CMS began to use these survey scores, along with process-of-care measures, to adjust reimbursement rates. of their Medicare reimbursements in Fiscal Year 2015 if they don’t show simultaneous improvements in both process of care measures and patient experience. Hospitals risk losing 1.5%

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Survey Health Care Process Quality 8