HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

To what extent is that down to a successful ‘Culture of Innovation?’ ’ Kristen Ludgate: 3M’s culture of innovation definitely comes through in the experience and approach of 3Mers during their day-to-day work. The HR Digest: 3M is said to have a passionate work culture fit for the industry’s most driven workers.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 10, 2020

The functionality of the apps is significant, with features such as live maps of confirmed cases, systems for monitoring home quarantine, location-based alerts, and direct reporting of symptoms to the government commonplace. ” Track and trace. Some apps also provide remote monitoring of vital signs, and tele-consultations. ”

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Pfizer people care. They embody our humanity and innovative spirit, and are determined to tackle some of the most pressing health care challenges of our time. Developing this ownership culture will be key to our success. I am personally proud of Pfizer’s colleagues.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

We then plop them into an ICU or operating room and hope that they somehow work together. Preventing complications, errors, and other harm too often depends on the heroism of clinicians rather than the design of safe systems. While this is new for health care, it has become routine in other complex, high-risk fields.

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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

MARCH 29, 2018

health care system. The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation. surgery, medicine, oncology), care areas (e.g., Health Care’s New Frontier.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2018

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. The Future of Health Care. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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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. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Caring for the health and well-being of our fellow humans has always been viewed as a combination of art and science. With all the recent advances in technology, there is no doubt the health care industry as a whole gets an “A” in science. Some dysfunction may always exist in our health care systems.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Increasing value in health care is a top priority for health systems, payers, and policy makers across the globe, as health care costs continue to escalate and consume an ever-greater proportion of national expenditures. Taking the Pulse of Health Care Transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

No one wants to toil away at a health care improvement effort only to see that progress disappear as systems and processes revert to the old way of doing things. Leading health care organizations recognize that improving care isn’t enough; having a systematic approach to sustaining improvement is equally important.

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Physician discontent over deteriorating working conditions and growing risks to patient care has risen to alarming levels in European hospitals. To understand physicians’ evolving reality, Bain’s biennial Europe Front Line of Health Care Survey tracks European practitioners’ attitudes, priorities and decision-making power.

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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. Donald Berwick.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2013

The health care industry has survived economically by cross-subsidizing margin shortfalls in one activity with the revenues generated from others. But the very existence of these cross-subsidies is symptomatic of deep flaws in the health care reimbursement system. The benefits from better utilization of capacity.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2017

That reality was made painfully clear in mid-May, when a cyberattacker using WannaCry ransomware crippled health care institutions and many other kinds of organizations around the world. In 2015 over 113 million Americans health records were exposed, and in 2016 the number was over 16 million, according to reports submitted to the U.S.

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. On January 19, 2012, after 131 years of operation, the Eastman Kodak Company filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. The analogous situation in health care is that whereas doctors and hospitals focus on producing health care, what people really want is health.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2011

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine reported that American health care was decidedly dangerous for patients. The cause was not malfeasant individuals; it was inadequately designed and operated systems of care delivery. In short, system complexity is the essential challenge. What does this mean?

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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

MARCH 7, 2018

Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Based on this event, IDHA began introducing voice technology with three discrete pilots: The intensive care unit. Research among clinicians is affirming our optimism about voice in health care. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2017

In 2014 Jess Jacobs, a director in an innovation lab, started blogging about her experience as she received treatment for two rare diseases. This is largely because many hospitals are reimbursed for every day a patient is in a bed, and it’s easier for the care team to monitor the healing process if all of their patients are in one unit.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

At the time, he was one of the few liver disease specialists in the entire state of New Mexico, and arithmetically, he would never be able to care for those patients in time to have a difference in their health. Innovating for Value in Health Care. So he conceived of and launched Project ECHO. Insight Center.

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Calls for teamwork in health care are as persistent as they are hard to heed. Prior research in healthcare and other industries makes clear the importance of team stability for team performance in general, yet stable teams are not always possible with chaotic 24/7 operations and heterogeneous work schedules. Insight Center.

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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

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

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Technological improvements in health care have given us the quality of life we enjoy today. But chronic conditions, end-of-life care, and an aging society will bankrupt the United States if it doesn’t make dramatic changes to its health care system. health care is stuck in the craft mode.

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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

JUNE 23, 2017

Smith was ready to be discharged home after his laryngectomy, an extensive operation that removes a patient’s throat due to cancer. The care team ultimately found him a temporary rehabilitation facility where he recovered for two weeks until he was ready to go home. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Insight Center.

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 1980, the national expenditure on health care in the United States was just over 9% of Gross Domestic Product. According to data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, workers’ earnings rose by 47% from 1999 to 2012, but their contribution to health insurance premiums during that time went up by 180%.

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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. Three obstacles. Reconceive the market.

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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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