Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. health care keeps getting costlier. These astronomical costs are largely due to the way competition works in American health care. Transforming Health Care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. For example, research institutions could create expertise pools and consortia for sharing intellectual resources, and develop incentives for sharing the physical assets of science such as laboratories and equipment.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 28, 2022

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. Stress was one of a number of mental health conditions that were affected by ageism, with the research also identifying increases in depression.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Transforming Health Care. To ensure that the motivating relationships and connections in traditional DPP programs did not disappear when a digital platform replaced the in-person meeting element, Omada grouped participants and health coaches into cohorts based on where they live. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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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. system, health care is viewed as a craft and each patient as unique.

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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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Steve Farber

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

David Conley found himself on a team of experts who were attempting to design satellite superstructures, a challenge not specifically covered while earning his college degree in nuclear engineering. The other team members already had thought of 20 of the ideas, but it had taken them five years, not one day. And guess what?

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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

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

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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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 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. RI uses the utilization data to impute an estimated expense for post-acute care based on publicly available Medicare payment data. Data on Outcomes and Costs.

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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

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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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

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

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

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. What’s a better approach?

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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. Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. The ideas have also been embraced by public policy makers, health plans, and the general public.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Leaders in today’s complex health care systems need better processes and systems for aligning day-to-day, clinical-care activities with the strategic goals of their organizations. Transforming Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. How leading providers are delivering value for patients.

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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 2, 2012

The controversial action — Britain's Institute of Directors warned of " anti-business hysteria " while Prime Minister David Cameron declared it "the right decision" — invites exactly the sort of "best practice" debate serious business leaders should have about honest compensation and perverse incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Creating the right sales processes and incentives. It reorganized its sales force to focus on specific segments within the hospital market, and trained both its sales and service teams (which now visited sites early in the sales cycle) on outcome-based selling. It did this in a few ways.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2011

If you've ever spent time in a hospital — either as a patient, staff member, or visitor — then you know that institutional health care is extremely complicated by nature. Patient satisfaction with hospital care is also declining , based on the American Customer Satisfaction Index.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

Physician burnout is a growing problem for all health care systems in the United States. Burned-out physicians deliver lower quality care , reduce their hours, or stop practicing , reducing access to care around the country. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2013

I was solicited by their sales team twice. 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.

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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. To address this lack of data on management, we teamed up with colleagues at the U.S. The survey contained 16 management questions in three main sections: monitoring, targets, and incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

The ACA tightly links the goals of improving quality of care while reducing costs; that means measuring quality accurately and avoiding the often-perverse financial incentives of fee-for-service medicine. The ACA has begun to move the health care system in this direction. Defining value in palliative care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The traditional fee-for-service reimbursement model is widely acknowledged to be a major driver of escalating health care costs. Harvard Pilgrim agreed to join the effort because it recognized that traditional payment models were unlikely to help control rising health care costs. The Motives of the Pilot’s Members.

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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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Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Lean methods, such as value stream mapping and improvement projects carried out by cross-functional teams can break down barriers and increase understanding. I’ve seen many organizations progress from blaming those nameless jerks in another department to working together toward the goal of better patient care.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2015

Their managements increasingly have to play the odds: What is more likely to get a better and safer return on investment — a really talented software development team in Bangalore, Bogata, or Cambridge? But that creates perverse incentives. Insight Center. Making Money with Digital Business Models. These phenomena are global.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

The answer matters, because these programs constitute an expensive combination of surveys, screens, and additional doctor visits and tests (all on company time) — plus incentives to encourage participation that now average $521 per employee. What is the ROI in reduced health spending? Many people lie to their own doctors.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The incentives run counter to authenticity, productive deviance, and simply getting work done efficiently. Consider what’s happened in health care reform, particularly in recent reforms to how hospitals conduct rounds. ” All this jibes with what my colleagues and I have observed in other organizations.

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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. By contrast, we have seen many struggling teams that award recognition for activity metrics (e.g.,

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