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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

Will the same happen to health care in the United States? By almost any measure, American health care costs are out of control but the system refuses to change. What if you could provide excellent care at ultra-low prices at a location close to the U.S.? health-care system is striving to get to.”

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Health Care Is an Investment, and the U.S. Should Start Treating It Like One

Harvard Business Review

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. health care system woefully underperform relative to those made in health care in other countries. Yet, investments in the U.S.

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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

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. The ramifications for traditional care providers typically dominated by hospitals is going to be big and may happen fast. Carol Yepes/Getty Images.

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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

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. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business Review

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. health care keeps getting costlier.

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American Companies Should Stop Being Helicopter Parents

Harvard Business Review

Why do American employers act like helicopter parents when it comes to their employees’ health care? Today all wage earners are required to put savings into an individual account to cover future health-care expenses, a scheme called Medisave. While Health Savings Accounts have existed in the U.S.

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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. health care system. But much of the blame can be attributed to hospitals’ misaligned budgeting and incentive systems. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care.