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Keeping Human Stories at the Center of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

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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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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How Digital Health Care Can Help Prevent Chronic Diseases Like Diabetes

Harvard Business Review

Transforming Health Care. While the in-person DPPs were largely successful in reducing disease risk and incidence, Duffy and James recognized that there was substantial opportunity to better scale the DPP and make it more accessible and personalized by using technology. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office

Harvard Business Review

Many health care organizations today are striving to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and to be rewarded for accomplishing both. It makes much more economic and operational sense to create and leverage a central cadre of professionals than to ask each clinical unit, on its own, to acquire such expertise.

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Value-Based Health Care Is Inevitable and That’s Good

Harvard Business Review

That breakthrough is value-based care, the goal of which is to lower health care costs and improve quality and outcomes. Not everyone, however, is onboard yet, because part of the value-based equation is that hospitals will be paid less to deliver better care. How the Health Care World Will Change.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. Leading Change in Health Care.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business Review

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic. Creative accounting measures.

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