Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2013

Providing employee health care has become a real challenge for businesses, especially in the United States, where costs keep rising inexorably. The fact that we are self-insured — the company itself pays their health claims, not an outside insurance company — makes us prudent about our costs.

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Health Care Innovation Marketing Insurance 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

If the health care industry followed suit, the impact on the quality and cost of care, the patient’s experience, and innovation could be enormous. Ultimately, this type of innovation serves the end customer — creating better functionality and experience for the user. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Health Care Incentives Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

health care system. The reason: It could liberate health care data for game-changing new uses, including empowering patients as never before. Let them share it with whomever they wish in the course of their own health care journey. Health Care’s New Frontier. Insight Center.

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Health Care System Industry Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Every so often, good ideas to lower health care costs in the US will come from unlikely sources. If adopted across the 30,000 transplants in the US, this protocol could conceivably save hundreds of millions of US health care dollars, annually. They are pressed to offer quality care at an ultra-low price.

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Health Care Cost Quality Price 15

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 28, 2020

” The analysis conducted by the MIT team found that WhatsApp can be an effective medium for online teaching, but only if it’s combined with strong behavioral incentives, an excellent teaching team, and attention to design details is built in from the start.

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Education Storytelling Health Care Content 69

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. 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 Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

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.

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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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Health Care Innovation Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

First, they are responsible for contributing a large chunk of patients into the health care system, especially in developed countries like the US. All of our new policies and efforts to provide affordable health care could pale in comparison to the exponentially rising costs associated with these diseases and their demographics.

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Health Care Cost Incentives Decentralization 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

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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Health Care Insurance Pharmaceuticals Incentives 8

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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Health Care Innovation Pharmaceuticals Consensus 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

For decades, experts and policy wonks have argued that health care is a uniquely inefficient industry, insulated from conventional market forces that operate in the rest of the economy. Poorly performing hospitals do not feel pressure from patients to improve quality because standard market forces do not apply to health care.

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Health Care Marketing Quality Travel 8

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. This innovation has also reduced costs. Today, the U.S.

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Health Care Cost Lean Production Innovation 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

What do we really know about the effectiveness of using financial incentives to improve quality and reduce costs in health care? It would seem that increasing payment for high-quality care (and, conversely, lowering payment for low-quality care) is an obvious way to improve value in health care.

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Health Care Incentives Motivation Quality 8

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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Health Care System Telecommunications Quality 8

Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them. Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them.” Instead, we suggest looking at the underlying processes, incentives, or policies that are driving the behaviors we want to change. A problem is only a problem within the context of a goal and a vision.

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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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Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

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. Seamless teamwork is critical to effective care of complex, high-cost patients.

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Health Care System Insurance Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Several studies show wide variation in prices for common health care services, even within local areas. Moreover, prior research has also shown that there is little correlation between price and quality of care for inpatient care and that higher-priced providers control a large share of the market.

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Health Care Price Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. Reducing the rate at which health care costs grow, and the proportion of U. health system grew by nearly 75%. Over half of the $2.6

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Health Care Supply Chain Compliance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Its success demonstrates the potential of digital health services, and its approach can serve as a model for applying such services to other chronic diseases. DPPs typically include in-person meetings of a small group of prediabetic adults who, with the guidance of a health coach, progress through a diet and lifestyle curriculum.

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Health Care Participative Wireless Pharmaceuticals 12

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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Health Care Cost Technology Peer Review 8

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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Health Care Insurance Industry Retail 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

health care system in ways big and small that would either build on or radically revamp the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We reviewed four strategies: the current health care system’s trajectory as is; comprehensive demand-side reform; aggressive supply-side reform; and a combination of demand-side and supply-side reform.

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Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Marshall Goldsmith

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Standard and behavioral economics are interested in similar topics, i.e., the choices people make; the effects of incentives; the role of information; etc. We are innovative, creative, and adaptable. insurance policies, retirement plans, and health care. insurance policies, retirement plans, and health care.

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Real Estate Health Care Crisis Policies 117

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2015

For years, one prescription to health care woes in the United States has been to shift costs to consumers. While patients are paying more and more out of pocket for care, key challenges stand in the way of them operating as effective consumers. As this experiment plays out in real life, however, a different reality is unfolding.

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Health Care Insurance Long-term Bottom-up 8

The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 28, 2022

The study is believed to be the first systematic review of the impact of ageism on health. It finds that the implications are wide-ranging, and include reduced access to health care and individual level bias against people, which can increase the stress levels of individuals. Estimates suggest that they possess $7.6

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Long-term Health Care Self-aware Survey 59

Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2014

In health care, the Hippocratic Oath — “first, do no harm” — can hold as much sway in the board room as it does in the exam room. Among health care leadership, it can have the unintended effect of promoting inaction over change and innovation. health care has become akin to a smothered child—stifled and arrested.

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Health Care Information Technology Learning-by-Doing Information 8

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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Social Capital Health Care Cooper Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The system for paying health care providers is extremely fragmented. In response, both the United States and the Netherlands are now experimenting with bundled-payment models , whereby a single prospective payment is made for all services for a patient with a given condition, even when multiple providers deliver that care.

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Health Care Insurance Quality Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

health care system. The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation. But much of the blame can be attributed to hospitals’ misaligned budgeting and incentive systems.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 19, 2020

I’ve written previously about the apprehension many doctors feel towards the roll out of electronic health records (EHR), with many expressing concern that they are a considerable administrative burden and get in the way of high quality care. “A Google search is easy,” the researchers say.

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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. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Health Care Quality System Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

As the tragedy of this particular Ebola outbreak has grown, it has become increasingly evident that health systems across West Africa are painfully underprepared to handle such a crisis. Diseases like Ebola do not discriminate between the rich or poor; West Africa needs health delivery systems that are equally democratic.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Franchising Innovation 8

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. Unfortunately, many systems are overlooking an entire class of innovations that are modest in size, low in risk, and highly likely to deliver wins for both patients and profits.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It's a shame Obama — and the Western press — didn't pay attention to the far bigger story happening in many of the countries on his visit: real, game-changing innovations from emerging markets that could point the way for currently stagnant Western firms. And relatively simple online technology magnifies these incentive effects.

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Innovation Marketing Incentives Education 15

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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