Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I have worked my entire career in great health systems with fabulous people. And yet, when I go “outside,” I constantly see health care providers working brilliantly together in innovative ways that I had not even imagined. Culture of shared responsibility at Mayo Clinic. They came because we’re the Mayo Clinic.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I have worked my entire career in great health systems with fabulous people. And yet, when I go “outside,” I constantly see health care providers working brilliantly together in innovative ways that I had not even imagined. Culture of shared responsibility at Mayo Clinic. They came because we’re the Mayo Clinic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

America is a nation of innovators and entrepreneurs. We are a nation that cares for our fellow citizens, yet we have failed to create a health care system that fully meets the needs of people in this country. More work is needed to achieve the drastic change in market forces that is necessary to create a sustainable health care system.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

As part of this process, we formally surveyed more than 150 executives; the sample represented a broad cross-section of health care, with respondents serving in leadership roles at organizations as diverse as physician practices, hospitalist staffing agencies and large health systems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

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. nationally.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

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 project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 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. But in a different sense, the health care system is starved for innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit. Here, then, is the conundrum.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2015

The humanist strand of management thinking that celebrates teams and collaboration through respect for customers and workers as human beings has a long and distinguished history. Achieving humanistic management has thus turned out to be a much more intractable problem than most thought leaders expected it to be.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2014

It used to be that hospitals and health systems operated as islands, selecting and purchasing medical supplies, devices and medications in isolation, and keeping their operational and leadership practices to themselves. An example of this type of collaboration is VHA’s Upper Midwest Consolidated Services Center (USMCSC).

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

Organization as machine – this imagery from our industrial past continues to cast a long shadow over the way we think about management today. Managers still assume that stability is the normal state of affairs and change is the unusual state (a point I particularly challenge in The End of Competitive Advantage ).

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Some hospitals in the New York State were being paid 40 times as much as the world-famous Mayo clinic for some treatments. The conclusion we draw from this is that before fretting about fixing the health care system in general, the U.S. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Among the implementing provider groups, Mayo Clinic stands out for its exemplary approach, which has enabled it to consistently enhance care delivery and realize cost efficiencies. We believe that others can learn from Mayo’s disciplined approach for value realization projects. select a project team with the right skill sets.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

And yet, as so many of us know who have attempted to manage our own care or tend to sick family members, the U.S. health care system rarely feels like it’s been set up to help us succeed. health care system have catalogued the degree of “unpaid,” and unsupported, work patients take on in service of their own care.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2013

By doing so, an elite group of companies has enabled their employees to more rapidly address customer problems, anticipate unarticulated needs and drive customer-facing innovation. Brands to the Mayo Clinic and U.S. Innovations such as shopping cart recommendations have been the direct result of entry-level employees taking initiative.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Although the partnership model has not yet been tried for ACOs, it has allowed a variety of multi-specialty medical groups — including the Mayo Clinic, Kaiser Permanente, and the Geisinger Health System — to achieve superior quality outcomes, outstanding service, and increased affordability. The Foundation Model’s Flaws.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2016

Sadly, Tony’s story is becoming an increasingly common and alarming refrain as countless patients, their insurers, and our health care system are literally paying the price. In 1950 two Mayo Clinic researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering ACTH, the active ingredient in Acthar.

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