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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Content Chief Information Officer Efficiency 8

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. We then plop them into an ICU or operating room and hope that they somehow work together.

Health Care 8

Health Care Engineering System Gordon 8

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Supply Chain Insurance Risk Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

It’s what health care might seem like to doctors, patients, and regulators around the world as new methods in machine learning offer more insights from ever-growing amounts of data. Health care regulators must also explore new ways to govern the use of these methods. Michael Froomkin have noted.

Health Care 8

Health Care Credit Scoring Constraint Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Many health care organizations today are striving to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and to be rewarded for accomplishing both. Most have begun this journey with pilot projects to obtain valid measures of outcomes and cost for one or two medical conditions. Leading Change in Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 8

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Cost Self-aware 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

area, a move it describes as “driven largely by health care reform, which demands an integrated regional network.&# Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. Johns Hopkins is not alone. .&#

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Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 64

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

A seismic shift will reshape the health care landscape away from acute care and toward chronic care. A new generation of technology -enhanced drugs and equipment will monitor and manage the care of these patients, changing the face of health care. By 2020, it is estimated that half the U.S.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain Health Care Webinar Project 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

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.

Technology 8

Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

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. is a model I believe in.

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Deming Health Care System Cost 28

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2014

A concrete example comes from within my own company, McKesson, the largest health-care services firm in the US. But even as we work through these issues, we continue to collaborate on ways technology can transform healthcare, and our role in that.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Airlines Retail 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Joint-Venturing - Partners come together for specific purposes or projects that may be beyond the scope of individual members. The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Each retains individual identity. Scientists, per research program.

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Cooper Open-book Tourism Telecommunications 50

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2015

The status quo in many healthcare institutions is to put the doctors in charge of running the operation. Instead, we develop and recruit specialists to fill those core operations functions. Develop standard protocols for care. Invest in technologies that promote efficiency and transparency.

Health Care 8

Health Care System ROI Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2018

In contrast to health care, aviation has been an early adopter of decision-support technology — the “fly by wire” flight-control computers that prevent unsafe operation of the aircraft and reduce maintenance costs and pilot workloads. Health Care’s New Frontier. Insight Center.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Health Care Technology Education 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

For most people in health care, being involved in designing a new hospital is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform both their work environment and the care they deliver. We attribute much of our success to making patients and frontline health care professionals the true architects of the project.

Health Care 8

Health Care Construction Planning Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

It would take 80% faster productivity growth to fully compensate for the projected decline. Boosting the productivity of health care is essential, given how fast this sector is growing. China’s health-care spending has almost tripled in the past five years and is projected to hit the $1-trillion mark by 2020.

Globalization 8

Globalization Productivity Products GDP 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

It doesn’t take long for technologies to outgrow their usefulness. Give us a sense of the challenge of keeping up with technology as a military CIO. Part of the day-to-day existence of the CIO is figuring out how to integrate modern technology. It’s a budget decision, which depends on what the principle operation is.

CIO 8

CIO Health Care Metrics Software 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2016

It brought the idea of building a safer health system to the forefront of the public’s mind. Since then, improving health care outcomes has become a central goal in everything from clinical training and research studies to government initiatives and political debate. Waves of Innovation in Surgical Quality and Safety.

Innovation 8

Innovation Health Care Operations Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

A fascinating business dynamic will unfold as health care providers in the United States shift from a reimbursement system that has historically paid for procedures performed to one that rewards population health — providing the total care of a community at a fixed cost and improving its members overall health.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Cost Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2018

One of the most recent automation technologies to emerge is robotic process automation , or RPA. It operates at the task level and not the end-to-end process level.” The company may have collections of standard operating procedures, but they are often poorly documented and out of date.

Process 10

Process Six Sigma Company Technology 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. Insight Center. The New Ways to Compete.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2015

The rationale is simple and elegant: A company with experience selling pharmaceutical products should be able to successfully and profitably sell its large customers (health plans, delivery systems, and governments) other health care offerings. also sell health care services and solutions. Access to capital.

Pharmaceuticals 8

Pharmaceuticals Health Care Industry Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

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. Corporate culture.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Facing escalating costs of medications and technology, health care patients and providers in the United States continue to search for opportunities to reduce overall costs while maintaining and improving health care outcomes. David Pereiras/Getty Images.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Cost Resources 8

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. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Health Care 8

Health Care Organization Incentives Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2013

His "Obama for America" fundraising , analytics and "get out the vote" operation was a masterpiece of agile electoral innovation and entrepreneurship. The Obama campaign's techniques, tools and technologies deserve detailed and dedicated attention from every organization that takes data-driven decisions seriously. They're right.

Marketing 8

Marketing Chief Technology Officer Case Study Critical Success Factor 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

All of Banner’s C-suite leaders served on the leadership team for the G&A project. Banner’s leaders used its G&A success to extend the optimization program to its clinical operations, starting with Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, the system’s flagship teaching hospital in Phoenix. Capitalize on success.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Low-risk expectant mothers pay a high price for unnecessary prenatal appointments in the form of time away from work and associated lost wages or personal days, child care costs, and so on. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum. How the most innovative providers are creating value.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Information Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Just the announcement that Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, and Jaime Dimon will be entering the health care space has sent shock waves for industry incumbents such as CVS, Cigna, and UnitedHealth. Software talent: The IT talent in industrial companies can execute projects oriented towards process efficiency and cost reduction.

Industry 8

Industry Software Six Sigma Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When I founded the nonprofit African Institution of Technology , I initially focused on helping African entrepreneurs or artisans, especially those with only primary education, develop new skills and market opportunities.

Books 14

Books Guidelines Banking Telecommunications 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

When I took over as chief marketing officer at GE, the mandate from CEO Jeff Immelt was to make marketing a vital operating function that could drive organic growth. We’ve found this to be true across industries, but particularly in health care.

Innovation 15

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2014

At Stanford, I conducted 35 interviews of data analysts from 25 organizations across a variety of sectors, including health care, retail, marketing, and ?nance. Data cleansing and preparation tasks can take 50-80% of the development time and cost in data warehousing and analytics projects. IT management Technology'

Analysis 9

Analysis Agility Tools Diversity 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Systems conceived and built 50-60 years ago should be reimagined for the 20 th century, whether high speed trains, innovative public transit, or technology-enabled roads and vehicles that tap the potential of sensors, smartphones, wireless networks, and Big Data for greener, cleaner, more efficient mobility. greenhouse gas emissions.

Transportation 8

Transportation Wireless Entrepreneur Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

He argues more broadly that all the “low-hanging fruit” produced by some non-repeatable breakthroughs (including fundamental technological triumphs) has been plucked. An impassioned counterargument comes from Erik Brynolfsson and Andy McAfee of MIT, who reject the premise that technology’s big leaps are all behind us.

Management 9

Management Drucker Short-term Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2012

Competitiveness Project at Harvard Business School, which we chair, asked the School's alumni to share their assessments of U.S. operations compete more effectively. operations compete more effectively. Competitiveness Project's outreach effort, we hope to encourage and mobilize business to do even more. Through the U.S.

Short-term 12

Short-term Survey Consensus Health Care 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2016

The starting point for achieving value in any health care system is to measure outcomes. Although this can present leadership challenges related to shifting strategy, culture and operations, it certainly isn’t rocket science. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Set Up a Steering Committee and Project Team.

Health Care 8

Health Care Committee Compliance Project 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Since 1980, we''ve seen a 400% increase in the cost of higher education, after adjustment for inflation — a higher cost escalation than any other industry, even health care. There is a significant opportunity to help reduce the lecture portion of expenses using technology innovations.

Education 9

Education Venture Capitalist Business Model Technology 9