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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

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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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. How the most innovative providers are creating value. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund.

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The Biggest U.S. Health Care Challenges Are Management Challenges

Harvard Business Review

More than half of the executives we surveyed believe their operational model is in need of change and disruption. After all, we expect incumbents to feel most confident about the future when they believe their operating models are sustainable — and to fear extinction when disruption is on the march. .

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Stop Trying to Control People or Make Them Happy

Harvard Business Review

Whether you’ve heard of them or not, two gurus from the early 20 th century still dominate management thinking and practice — to our detriment. It has been more than 100 years since Frederick Taylor, an American engineer working in the steel business, published his seminal work on the principles of scientific management.

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Turning Value-Based Health Care into a Real Business Model

Harvard Business Review

How, then, are innovative providers redesigning care so that, despite financial pain in the short term, they achieve long-range success? Such microscopic analysis of frozen-tissue samples can take 24 hours or more at some hospitals, but Mayo achieves it in, say, 20 minutes while the surgery is in process. Experience in managing risk.

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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. They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs.