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How Mayo Clinic Is Simplifying Prenatal Care for Low-Risk Patients

Harvard Business Review

To address this problem, in 2011 a group at Mayo Clinic led by the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology launched an initiative to transform prenatal care from this medicalized model to an innovative wellness model. In 2016 it was added as a standard care option at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Home-monitoring equipment.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

When redesigning the new and expanded emergency room at the Mayo Clinic’s Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, Mayo leaders didn’t just want to add more rooms and square feet. The successful experience illustrates the role that relatively simple technology (e.g., and Patricia E.

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How Mayo Clinic Is Using iPads to Empower Patients

Harvard Business Review

An effort under way at the Mayo Clinic shows how such technology can be used to improve outcomes and lower costs in health care. For example, it included information on wound care, exercise and diet, activity restrictions, follow-up appointments, and potential complications and how to recognize them. Source: Mayo Clinic.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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An Alternative to Health Care M&A

Harvard Business Review

The challenges of combining and managing the resources and operations of the different organizations and aligning their cultures may actually make the goal of integrated, patient-centered care much harder to achieve. In 2011 Mayo elected to follow this course. What’s the alternative?

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Searching for Health Care's Entrepreneurial Spirit

Harvard Business Review

The situation is such that if a physician from the 1950s were magically brought back to life today, he would recognize none of the technology that a contemporary doctor uses, but he would feel quite at home in the settings in which the technology is used. The Mayo clinic in Minnesota shows that care can be coordinated.

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What Health Care Leaders Need to Do to Improve Value for Patients

Harvard Business Review

Dr. Ryan Uitti, a neurologist at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, used a simple spreadsheet to track outcomes for patients with Parkinson’s disease for more than a decade. Last year, Mayo’s Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery (CSHCD) worked with Dr. Uitti to launch a broader outcomes measurement program.