Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

secretary of health and human services, is a fierce and long-time critic of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), including initiatives that restructure how some doctors are paid. But I hope it means that he recognizes we need to take bold action to correct our health system’s current trajectory. Who can blame them?

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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

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

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. The result is predictable: immense and costly variation in access, quality, and safety. Insight Center.

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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. The impact of open, standardized APIs in health care would be even more significant. Leading Change in Health Care. Insight Center.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2013

While health spending in the United States far surpasses that in other industrialized nations, the quality of care in the US is no better overall, and on several measures it is worse. But astonishingly, there’s little evidence that they actually improve quality.

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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

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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2018

The dependence on this limited data set originates in the system’s orientation toward “sick care” — treating illness. The government and private sector have dedicated enormous capital and energy to building electronic health record and claims systems to automate and record sick-care transactions.

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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

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

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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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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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 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

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

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 10, 2017

Americans are both undertreated and overtreated in a health care system that wastes up to $1 trillion a year and delivers profoundly uneven quality: Current estimates indicate that preventable medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Information technology has come late to health care delivery.

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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. A Hub-and-Spoke Design.

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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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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

OCTOBER 13, 2015

health care system in ways big and small that would either build on or radically revamp the Affordable Care Act (ACA). All will claim to reduce costs and improve quality. During the presidential campaign, Americans will be bombarded with proposals to improve the U.S.

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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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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

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Pay-for-performance programs have enabled payers to hold providers accountable for performance on quality measures. Public reporting has made quality and safety data more transparent. More and more providers are now being held accountable for the cost of care in addition to quality. Leading Change in Health Care.

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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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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. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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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. In health care, the decision to forgo a colonoscopy or use one medicine over another has implications that play out over several years, if not decades. Reconceive the market.

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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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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

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. Driving cultural change is probably the most difficult challenge that health care leaders face, especially when a new payment mechanism is introduced.

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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. All of us know that we should eat healthier food, but does this knowledge by itself change our behavior?

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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

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

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

JANUARY 21, 2013

Providing employee health care has become a real challenge for businesses, especially in the United States, where costs keep rising inexorably. Though I regret my poor choice of words in describing Obamacare as fascism, clearly something needs to be done to bring affordable, quality healthcare to everyone in this country.

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