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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

The dependence on this limited data set originates in the system’s orientation toward “sick care” — treating illness. This digitization supports consistent quality of care and payment accuracy, but the data is primarily retrospective – it tells a story of what has been. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 8, 2014

As any resourceful project manager would, she utilized her network to create new opportunities for her team elsewhere in the country. The social innovation sector is filled with perverse incentives. Social ventures target populations with a fundamental need like nutrition, health care, or education.

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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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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. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

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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. Purchase quality.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2018

This is despite women comprising 80% of the healthcare workforce and evidence that having women in upper management and on corporate boards is associated with improved financial performance and enhanced accountability. The Future of Health Care. Re-thinking awards and promotions. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Deming Institute

JUNE 1, 2015

Louis Altazan, President of AGCO Automotive Corporation discusses the success AGCO has had applying Deming’s management system to their service organization (car repair). He also discusses how the system in many auto repair shops creates incentives for people to put their pay above providing the customer service.

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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

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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

These and many other feats of information management will soon be routine in the United States. Our health system is undergoing a digital revolution that will profoundly affect the health care of Americans. government program called HITECH has helped accelerate the electronic health care revolution.

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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

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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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

Former government official and management expert Kristen Cox teamed up with business consultant Yishai Ashlag in the book Stop Decorating the Fish: Which Solutions to Ignore and Which Problems Really Matter. Instead, we suggest looking at the underlying processes, incentives, or policies that are driving the behaviors we want to change.

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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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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). Edwards Deming’s process management theory. 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

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 24, 2017

But health care providers are also widely held responsible for overprescribing prescription opioids. Transforming Health Care. While research testing this hypothesis is mixed, it’s clear that efforts to curb the epidemic need to involve physicians and hospitals. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Curious Cat

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

The health care mess in the USA creates huge problems for the economy and people in the USA but it prints money for any company selling products and services in that market. Read more interviews with me on management topics and on travel and blogging topics. Also listen to podcasts with me on management topics.

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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

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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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

JANUARY 19, 2016

Just as technology is giving providers more ways to care for and engage their patients in a variety of places, it is also providing the means for governments to reach people with health care information, businesses to tailor wellness programs for their workforce, and people to take charge of their own health.

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Marshall Goldsmith

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Here's his take: Joe: Managers across the country are facing tough decisions as they try to manage their cost base against diminishing demand. These actions, coupled with incentives that elicit new ideas for improving operations can send important positive messages at a time of stress. Earl Sasser, Jr.

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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

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 22, 2016

To find out what experiences health plan members want from payers, Cognizant surveyed members of private U.S. health plans, including national, regional, and Blues members (Medicare and Medicaid members were excluded). Digital interaction with their health insurer is the preferred mode for 84 percent. 40 percent).

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Ask any sports fan about their favorite team and they will usually spend half the time either cursing or extolling the manager. Apparently, the manager is responsible for every loss, and perhaps even the occasional victory. On the other hand, many people have an ingrained cynicism about the latest management thinking.

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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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2016

A simple question was asked: are hospitals ranked more highly when they are led by medically trained doctors or non-MD professional managers? The analysis showed that hospital quality scores are approximately 25% higher in physician-run hospitals than in manager-run hospitals.

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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 12, 2018

The dilemma for directors, however, is determining what aspects of sustainability, or ESG performance, should have priority — and should be linked to pay incentives. Compensation committees often start by tying bonuses and long-term incentives to goals related to compliance and risk management.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

health care landscape. Consequently, if we want new medical innovations to be financially viable for the patients who need it most, health insurance markets need to be regulated to eliminate the perverse financial incentives that limit patients’ coverage. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In our research into more than 8,000 companies in 20 countries, 79% of organizations reported that their management practices were above average. companies, and fewer than 5% elsewhere, scored above a 4 on a five-point management-practices scale we created. That should have been very good news. You really are above average!

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Not long ago, many services such as tax accounting were delivered episodically and in-person, as most health care still is today. There is still a need for accountants and face-to-face meetings, but typically accountants now require such visits for only the more complicated cases that can’t be managed with software or a call.

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