Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. In fact, this environment is the most disruptive I’ve witnessed in my 35 years in the health care industry. Carol Yepes/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Every so often, good ideas to lower health care costs in the US will come from unlikely sources. This approach has now been adopted in many developing countries. If adopted across the 30,000 transplants in the US, this protocol could conceivably save hundreds of millions of US health care dollars, annually.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 14, 2016

Economists argue that things will improve when we get the incentives right. Nease is the recipient of the Henry Christian Award for Excellence in Research from the American Federation for Clinical Research and the URAC’s Health Care Consumer Empowerment and Protection Award for his application of behavioral economics to health care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

As of 2011, organizations must have received at least Silver Awards to qualify for National Institute for Health Research Funding. The Future of Health Care. Creating opportunities for development and sponsorship. Re-thinking awards and promotions. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

Diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, chronic kidney disease, and stroke are on the rise in both the developed and the developing world, and they have a few things in common. First, they are responsible for contributing a large chunk of patients into the health care system, especially in developed countries like the US.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

In our group at Merck, we are witnessing this opportunity firsthand as we collaborate with start-ups in the areas of digital health, big data, and health IT. Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate. Entrepreneurship Health Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

million adults in the United States with high blood sugar levels in danger of developing type 2 diabetes. Transforming Health Care. Weight loss is a clinically-accepted proxy measure for reducing the risk of developing diabetes.) million people in the United States and costs a staggering $245 billion per year to treat.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Businesses that are serious about reducing health care costs — and improving the health and well-being of their employees — should take a serious look at digital therapeutics, which have the potential to provide effective, low-cost ways to prevent and treat chronic diseases and their consequences. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. For example, research institutions could create expertise pools and consortia for sharing intellectual resources, and develop incentives for sharing the physical assets of science such as laboratories and equipment.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2015

In six years of working across 60 countries in search of the perfect health system, I have been fascinated by the fact that every country wants to deliver safe, consistently good, financially sustainable health care, but no one has been able to do it. Leading Change in Health Care. Insight Center.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Its services will include tertiary care procedures, such as open-heart surgery, angioplasty, knee or hip replacement, and neurosurgery for about 40% of U.S. At a time when health care costs in the United States threaten to bankrupt the federal government, U.S. Today, the U.S. By contrast, hospitals in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

health care system is begging for disruption. Hundreds of millions of Germans, French, English, Scandinavians, Dutch, Danish, Swiss, Canadians, New Zealanders, and Australians get comparable or better health services for half of what we pay. Paul Taylor/Getty Images. It costs way too much ($3.3 Could this be it?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. One major reason for the rapid cost inflation in health care is burgeoning hospital construction.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

There are few more personal, passionate, and political topics than health care. The reasons for this are clear: Health care spending has reached 17% of the U.S. But regardless of ACA's legal prognosis, the Pandora's Box of true health care reform has already been opened — and it happened before most of us realized.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Our health system is undergoing a digital revolution that will profoundly affect the health care of Americans. The proportion of American hospitals with an electronic health record has grown eight-fold in recent years , from 9% in 2008 to 76% in 2014. If health care markets functioned well in the U.S,

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. health care keeps getting costlier. These astronomical costs are largely due to the way competition works in American health care. Transforming Health Care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Early efforts to publish performance data about doctors and hospitals usually required a strong external force, such as pressure from a state department of health. Some leading health care systems are now publishing ratings of their physicians on their own websites, not just ceding that activity to consumer outlets.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

These observations suggest an interesting opportunity for making health care better, and even more efficient – if health care organizations can figure out how to create an “epidemic of empathy.”. What would an epidemic of empathy look like? The time for such an epidemic has arrived.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

It is critical to have physicians intimately involved in these efforts, yet hospitals and health systems struggle to engage them in improving care. Furthermore, much of the focus on health care redesign has been on primary care physicians, despite the fact that specialty care is responsible for the majority of health care spending.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

But health care providers are also widely held responsible for overprescribing prescription opioids. Transforming Health Care. The most notable effort to date has been the widespread development of PDMPs, which are now in place in 49 U.S. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Consistent with Value Based Health Care principles , HOI and RI measure and track their outcomes and costs for every patient’s cycle of care. RI co-developed an outcomes-reporting software tool and is now able to seamlessly integrate this information into each patient’s medical record.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

In health care, value accrues to patients, insurers, and society at large. ” But most patients don’t embark on a health care experience with a thorough understanding of available treatment options and their anticipated health outcomes. Toward that end, several steps must be taken.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 4, 2015

As health care reform evolves, large public institutions that offer a health safety net have some advantages over privately owned enterprises. Those are all assets in an era of health care reform. I head one of these institutions: Dallas-based Parkland Health and Hospital Systems. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

For a discipline so fundamentally altruistic, health care is oddly dysfunctional around relationships. Our full article describing social capital, its roles in health care, and strategies for building it in health care organizations is available here (PDF). Leading Health Care Innovation.

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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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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

He’s used it in agriculture, health care, energy, and just about every other business context you can imagine. The incentives the company paid them was far less than the cost of recruiting services, and the results were even better: a plethora of well-suited, talented new employees and virtually no headhunter fees.

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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. Engage health systems in change. The HTA “anticipates delivering better health care while reducing costs” through its members’ collective work.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Among the many changes ushered in with the new health care law is the shift to value-based purchasing, which ties a system’s Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to the quality of the services it provides. Both are core criteria in meeting incentive goals under value-based purchasing. Hospital systems in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2016

But health is not just an outcome of development – it is a prerequisite. health care costs, according to the U.S. health care costs, according to the U.S. Care Providers. Some companies are adopting wearable technology as part of their wellness programs to incent employees to get fit.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Supposedly, everyone working in health care wants the same thing: to help people get and stay healthy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

A well-known example is India’s Aravind Eye Hospital, which brought affordable eye care to millions in low-income communities by innovating around service delivery and optimizing patient throughput. They are more nimble, and have more incentives to innovate for scale and sustainability. Improving health record-keeping.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

health care system. Many have received unpleasant surprises, such as a medical bill they expected to be covered by their health insurance or an unexpectedly expensive bill for a simple service. It is costing employers and health plans billions of dollars each year. The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The transformation of health care continues at a rapid pace, bringing opportunities and challenges for health care providers to deliver improved clinical outcomes at lower costs. And many health care systems continue to struggle to reliably deliver evidence-based care.

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