The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Last week’s review of Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet generated a good LinkedIn discussion in The Letter Leader. Most civilizations have conjured up some theory of decline from a perfect original state that underpinned their prevalent belief systems.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Institutions purchase hundreds of individual, siloed technologies — each with its own work processes, training, and user interfaces — based on what the market offers. Preventing complications, errors, and other harm too often depends on the heroism of clinicians rather than the design of safe systems.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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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 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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Many of those working in the consolidating health care industry will immediately validate several of the authors’ key findings, including: Bureaucracy is growing, not shrinking. Transforming Health Care. Lean daily management systems were pioneered by Toyota, Honda, and other manufacturers. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. But that is about to change, as big data and the ability to crunch it will deliver actionable insights that will increase health care’s reach, efficiency, accuracy, and value. Taking the Pulse of Health Care Transformation.

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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. So, the market is heading back to the future.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I have worked my entire career in great health systems with fabulous people. And yet, when I go “outside,” I constantly see health care providers working brilliantly together in innovative ways that I had not even imagined. Transparency at University of Utah Health Care. health care work.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I have worked my entire career in great health systems with fabulous people. And yet, when I go “outside,” I constantly see health care providers working brilliantly together in innovative ways that I had not even imagined. Transparency at University of Utah Health Care. health care work.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

America is a nation of innovators and entrepreneurs. We are a nation that cares for our fellow citizens, yet we have failed to create a health care system that fully meets the needs of people in this country. health care — how health care is paid for. Addressing Fragmentation.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 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. The challenge that we face — making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people — is not unique to health care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Let’s hope that’s true for “value” in health care. Where other mantras – such as quality or managed care – have failed to galvanize the system’s diverse stakeholders, value may have a chance. Michael Porter has defined value as “health outcomes achieved per dollar spent.” Words can spearhead social transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2013

health care market more than a decade ago, they were greeted with high expectations. The hope was their lower cost structure and focus on convenience and price transparency — two things sorely lacking in traditional health care — would engender radical changes. When retail clinics entered the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

In doing so, suggested Jerry Solon, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh, it is possible to start making real inferences about the inputs (health care services) that generate an output (treating a patient). health care. The second and less obvious reason is the state of the wiring of all health care transactions.

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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

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

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Health insurance companies are uniquely positioned to save the day in our ailing health system. Yes, you heard me correctly: health insurers. Health insurers — or “payers” — are reviled nearly universally. Offer options for low-cost, convenient care.

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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). These interventions are beneficial because they eliminate mostly waste in the system, avoiding the hard trade-offs among cost, quality, and access to care.

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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 6, 2015

Few health care leaders would disagree that the U.S. health care industry needs to drastically change. Over the past two years, we’ve convened health care leaders at roundtables and other events to discuss the challenges and opportunities they face, both inside their organization and from the external market.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

In a new survey of 613 global health systems executives and consultants conducted by Harvard Business Review Analytic Services and sponsored by Siemens, 91 percent said that great opportunity lies ahead for healthcare because of the disruption offered by new technologies and new business models. The Power of Digitalizing Health Care.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

. “While population decline is potentially good news for reducing carbon emissions and stress on food systems, with more old people and fewer young people, economic challenges will arise as societies struggle to grow with fewer workers and taxpayers, and countries’ abilities to generate the wealth needed to fund social support and health (..)

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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. While patients are paying more and more out of pocket for care, key challenges stand in the way of them operating as effective consumers. Reconceive the market. Three obstacles.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

End users can take advantage of quantities of newly available information to solve problems in population health, clinical decision support, and patient engagement, among other applications. And ease of access means ease of market entry: Emerging data providers can get on their feet quickly and create new sources of competition.

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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 7, 2015

Health care remains one of the few services that require people to have a face-to-face interaction to obtain access. In January 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new provider reimbursement code for non–face-to-face health care services for patients who have chronic medical conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2016

And although the industry saw a slight slowdown in 2015, innovations with 3D-printed products are visible among a wide range of industries. Medical technologies often are expensive when they enter the market, becoming cheaper over time, but many of the new 3D-printed solutions are coming in at a reasonable price point.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The real question is what it will look and feel like for patients and providers once care is connected and the “network effect” begin to take hold. It turns out we have a pretty good sense of what’s to come because we know what AirBnB has done to hotels (and homes), Waze to GPS systems and fold-up maps, and Uber to taxis.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2013

we fret that our health care system costs too much. But, given the structure of health insurance, the question should not be “Why are prices so high?” The lack of price sensitivity on the demand side of the health care market cannot but influence strategies on the supply side.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Few recent trends in health care delivery have more power to improve population health, patient and provider experience, and hospital business models than virtual care. Innovating for Value in Health Care. As we grow this program, we plan to evaluate its value in a number of innovative ways.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

It is a widely held belief among health care leaders that comparing their hospitals and clinics to peers is very important. health care quality and safety is abysmal: The evidence suggests that between 240,000 to 400,000 deaths occur each year due to medical errors. Tightening that ship will not get you to zero.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The shift from volume-based to value-based health care is inevitable. Although that trend is happening slowly in some communities, payers are increasingly basing reimbursements on the quality of care provided, not just the number and type of procedures. Tell us what health-care content you’d like to see more of from HBR.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Missing the turn or making it too late can cause a company to stagnate or implode or can spell the death of the idea; or worse, the idea becomes someone else’s to bring to market without you. To scale you need a playbook so that everyone has clarity about the processes and systems that get stuff done. Others do not. Get it all out.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The pressures for fundamental change in health care have been building for decades, but meaningful change has been limited while the urgency of change only grows. There is only one real solution, which is to dramatically increase the value of health care. And with such deep societal concerns about health care spending?

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