Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a debate in the United States about whether the current measures of health care quality are adequate to support the movement away from fee-for-service toward value-based payment. Transforming Health Care. So far, the Trump administration has not weighed in. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Examples include the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative for Medicare patients, arrangements between commercial insurers and providers, and increasingly, in direct negotiated contracts between large employers such as Boeing, Lowes, and Wal-Mart and leading providers for complex medical conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

At the time, he was one of the few liver disease specialists in the entire state of New Mexico, and arithmetically, he would never be able to care for those patients in time to have a difference in their health. Innovating for Value in Health Care. So he conceived of and launched Project ECHO. Insight Center.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). Its network of twenty-three hospitals and 160 clinics provides more than half of all health care delivered in the region.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Understanding the implementation plans for the health care law passed in 2010 is a complicated job for even the most seasoned policy wonks. A cascading series of deadlines, operating systems, and reporting rules have to be arranged, tested, and communicated. Can we really do that in this environment?". What happens next?

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2017

Bundled payments in health care have gained favor because they can reduce costs and help improve outcomes. In essence, episodic bundles cover the cost of a patient’s care from start to finish—all the procedures, devices, tests, drugs and services a patient will need for, say, a knee replacement or back surgery.

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Deming Institute

MAY 14, 2015

In the paper, he describes statistical control of quality as a system, not a bag of techniques, focuses on statistical methods in improvement of operations. Unaided by statistical techniques, man’s natural reaction to trouble of any kind, such as an accident, high rejection-rate, stoppage of production, is to blame the operators.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Teams of health care professionals, as found in clinics and hospitals. Multiple companies find that doing business in a new country is easier when a consortium operates.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Several studies (including this one ) have shown that doctors want to be led by other doctors; they trust physician leaders to make the right decisions about redesigning health care delivery and balancing quality and cost. acute care hospitals, rehab clinics, physician practices, and urgent care centers).

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Presentation by Ed Chaplin MD at our 2015 Deming Institute annual conference – It Takes An Enterprise: Current Neuroscience and Knowledge of Psychology. He discusses habits and that “95% of the time we operate on auto-pilot.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2018

In 2013, The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation launched the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative, a program that proponents hoped could rein in health care costs by “bundling” payment for the full gamut of services that comprise an episode of care. The Future of Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The root cause is twofold: a mismatch between organizations’ strategies and actual market demand, and a lack of operational discipline. To be financially sustainable, hospitals and health systems must revamp their strategies and insist that their investments in new payment models and physician employees generate solid returns.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2016

What is excellent health care? In medicine we’ve long operated under the mantra “doctor knows best.” So imagine their reaction when University of Utah Health Care (UUHC) started surveying patients and asking them how they define excellence. Payments to physicians rose 42% from 2011 to 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

When we examined responses by industry, we found that directors in the health care and IT and telecom industries were most likely to consider innovation a top strategic challenge for their firms. As one director noted, “We spend a lot of time on operational strategy — growth, acquisitions, etc.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

In contrast to health care, aviation has been an early adopter of decision-support technology — the “fly by wire” flight-control computers that prevent unsafe operation of the aircraft and reduce maintenance costs and pilot workloads. Health Care’s New Frontier. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

In the era of the Affordable Care Act, consumers in the U.S. can now purchase private health insurance in 14 state-based marketplaces (SBMs), along with the federally facilitated marketplace (FFM). By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The Future of Health Care. A 2015 systematic review of physician leadership development programs found that few reported negative outcomes or system level effects (i.e. And the span of leadership and responsibility grows once physicians enter independent practice. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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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. Marys during the fourth quarter of 2015.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2017

Nearly everyone in health care wants to cut waste and reduce unnecessary costs — until the conversation turns to advanced chronic illness and end-of-life care. Fears about “pulling the plug on granny,” no matter how ill she may be, have slowed progress toward value-based care. The Status Quo.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. But clinical and nonclinical staff at the Rotterdam Eye Hospital have improved patient care and raised staff morale at a very modest cost: 10 minutes a day and a special deck of cards. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

a year between 2010 and 2015, considerably slower than the 5.4% from 2010 to 2015, compared with 4.1% trillion in 2015 to $3.5 For instance, we find that only 30% of revenues are earned by companies that operate in the resources sector. from 2000 to 2010. between 2000 and 2010. trillion by 2025.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

In 2015, CareMore embarked on a journey to transform care delivery in Medicaid with the aim of leveraging its 20-year history in providing comprehensive care for seniors under Medicare. The Future of Health Care. We described our early progress in this 2015 HBR article. Hero Images/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. Leading Change in Health Care. Five main factors make our clinical partnerships work: Joint operating committees that meet regularly. With an accountable care organization (ACO).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Many adult health care outcomes are shaped in childhood. Current models of pediatric primary care do little to address these “non-medical” causes and consequently have been largely ineffective in preventing adult disease. Reforming primary care pediatrics therefore has great potential for improving overall U.S.

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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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. area health care market has indeed shifted.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

adults were at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in 2015. It served close to 4,000 people in 2014, its first full year in the market, and expected enrollment to top 100,000 in 2016, five times the number enrolled by all other diabetes prevention program (DPP) providers combined in 2015. Consider that 86 million U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

While SSA was predicted to grow above 5% year-over-year in 2015 at the beginning of the year, actual GDP growth is more likely to come in at around 3–4% year-over-year. Companies operating in SSA cannot ignore the country, even though it will suffer substantially from the impact of low oil prices on the currency and business activity.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

billion debit and credit card transactions, its research revealed a dramatic slowdown in the growth of everyday consumer spending from 2014 to 2015. Read more from Cognizant: What Consumers Want Online Now from Their Health Care Plans. When JPMorgan Chase & Co. analyzed 12.4

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2018

Greater Boston, home to 55 institutions of higher learning, has attracted a slew of companies in health care and other industries. R&D headquarters to Cambridge in 2015 from Westchester County, New York, where it had resided for the preceding 67 years. National Institutes of Health. medical diagnostics).

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

To answer these questions, I talked to Marc van Zadelhoff, VP of IBM Security, about the current state of cybersecurity and the Ponemon Institute’s 2015 study of cybersecurity around the world, which IBM sponsored. And then you think, “Well, they know I’m having an operation tomorrow, so they must be a legitimate bank.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

On World AIDS Day 2015, we can celebrate tremendous strides globally in the fight against HIV/AIDS. As of 2015, over 2 million people still become newly infected with HIV every year, and an estimated 22 million people remain untreated. Around the world, 15.8 But HIV remains a global threat.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Nonetheless, in 2015 Geisinger Health System implemented an IT system called a Unified Data Architecture (UDA) which allowed us to integrate big data into our existing data analytics and management systems. The data model also tracks waste in our operating rooms.

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