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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

In the United States and throughout the world, health care is undergoing a transformation. The clear solution is to increase the value of care: improving patient outcomes while containing, if not reducing, costs. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth and sign up to receive updates here.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

Instead, we suggest looking at the underlying processes, incentives, or policies that are driving the behaviors we want to change. There is very little financial incentive for people to change their behavior despite PR campaigns. Subscribe to Leadership Insights , the blog that transforms. Image Credit: Rachel Hisko.

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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 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

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).

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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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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 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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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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Deming Institute

JUNE 1, 2015

He also discusses how the system in many auto repair shops creates incentives for people to put their pay above providing the customer service. The USA health care system also sets what about to piece rate charges for consultations and service delivery. And we have those problems in our health care system.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 27, 2010

Many of the provisions of the sweeping health-care bill passed by the House of Representatives in March won’t kick in until 2014, however these provisions spell big changes for small businesses. Health insurance costs for small businesses increased from 1999 to 2007.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

health care are Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) — networks of doctors, hospitals and usually payers banded together to rein in costs by providing higher quality, better coordinated care, with primary care doctors central to the process. Among the current remedies for U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 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. Health care providers are hesitant to share data, and it may not be for the reasons you think. So yes, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

So healthcare leaders have long wondered: what’s the best way to change clinicians’ behavior and improve their quality and efficiency of care? In recent years, there has been a lot of enthusiasm about approaches like financial incentives and behavioral “nudges ” to help clinicians offer more evidence-based care.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

Other firms have ventured down this path, including the conglomerate Wesfarmers , with its 200,000-plus staff, and the global hospital operator Ramsay Health Care. CEO incentives have traditionally been evaluated against objective data — also labelled “hard.” It has no intention of doing so.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Dear Jeffrey, My company delivers mobile dictation and transcription service to field workers in IT and health care, saving these people time in reporting. You must attract them with reputation, range of salary and incentives, and social proof that you’re great. Somebody obviously did. Best regards, Jeffrey.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 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. All patients would designate health care proxies. Good end-of-life care is a fundamental component of quality medical care.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

It has trained more than 700 unskilled and displaced workers for well-paid jobs with defined career ladders in the biotech and health care sectors. It has also upgraded the skills of more than 1,000 incumbent workers in the health care, hospitality, property services, automotive services, and green industries.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

In this view, management thinking obsesses over the latest fad, and represents a kind of leadership version of the Pokémon craze. The survey contained 16 management questions in three main sections: monitoring, targets, and incentives. On the other hand, many people have an ingrained cynicism about the latest management thinking.

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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. While collaboration is always challenging, the health care benefits are by now clear.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Doctors were once viewed as ill-prepared for leadership roles because their selection and training led them to become “heroic lone healers.” The emphasis on patient-centered care and efficiency in the delivery of clinical outcomes means that physicians are now being prepared for leadership. The Best Hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

How would we deliver care to a population overburdened with severe mental illness, food insecurity (the lack of consistent access to enough food to lead an active, healthy life) and early-onset chronic diseases — and do so in locations as disparate as Tennessee and Iowa? The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2013

These are all important endeavors, of course, but women who work in factories are largely missed: they aren''t poor enough to require the most basic assistance, but they aren''t wealthy enough to access programs targeting women for leadership roles or business development.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2014

We have tested an approach that has seemed to address these issues in our jobs in the nonprofit and government sectors, where financial incentives can be scarce and other forms of recognition, therefore, are especially important. Leadership Leading teams Managing people'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Feature Triple-Strength Leadership Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Nick Lovegrove and Matthew Thomas Managing resource constraints, controlling health care costs, implementing smart-grid technologies — these are challenges that can’t be addressed unless government, business, and NGOs work together.

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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

MARCH 8, 2016

Whether that kind of leadership positions a company for long-term success is a different question. In February 2014, CVS CEO Larry Merlo announced that, as a part of CVS’s strategic shift into providing health care, the company would stop selling tobacco products. The company walked away from $2 billion in annual revenue.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

In slightly more formal terms, Id suggest that they were able to take on, at least in tiny part, five of Robert Merton and Zvi Bodies six standard functions of a financial system: settling payments, providing information, setting incentives, pooling resources, and transferring resources.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

It may refer to experience with any (or any combination of) the following: A customer group: e.g., a banker or other financial services recruit hired by a software firm to call on financial firms; or, in health care, firms sell different products, but many sell to hospitals. On-going talent assessments.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

His primary insight is that the frame one firm uses has to be able to counter their rivals incentive to jump to greater transparency and offer discounts. His primary insight is that the frame one firm uses has to be able to counter their rivals incentive to jump to greater transparency and offer discounts.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We have positioned ourselves not just as a productivity-driving force but also as an agent of society by investing in education and health care for our people. CEOs and boards: Esquel's governance and incentive structure allow it to persistently embrace and pursue the values described above.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

President Obama has some unfinished business to attend to, and taking care of it will require help and support from corporate leaders across the country. Just as business leadership was crucial when we turned back the threat to the ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbons, it will be essential today. He delivered on the first two.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. Some of the most respected authorities in health care feel the same way: “Only private business…can solve America’s epidemic of obesity, chronic disease, and runaway health care costs by investing in the health…of their employees.”

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2017

For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system? Transforming Health Care. They had incentives to do so, but they could easily refuse. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 20, 2016

Can wellness programs help employers reduce out-of-control health care costs? The current ROI debate has focused on whether one type of wellness program, lifestyle management (diet, exercise, and lifestyle changes), can reduce health care claims and lead to lower costs. The answer, most emphatically, is yes.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

For that reason we advocate an alternative: the partnership model, which relies on shared leadership among hospitals, insurance plans, and medical groups. This is the leadership structure needed to improve physician performance and overcome the tendency of doctors to try to maximize their individual compensation. Making the Model Work.

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