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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

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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How Health Care Providers Can Help End the Overprescription of Opioids

Harvard Business

By any metric, opioid-related overdoses in the United States have reached epidemic proportions. This requires investments in data infrastructure and health information technology to measure real-time opioid prescribing patterns. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business

The goal should be to keep children on a trajectory to becoming productive, successful, healthy adults rather than just treating them when they are sick. Still, these metrics have yet to include broader measures of wellness such as academic achievement, involvement in crime, or job outcomes (i.e., health care outcomes.

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