Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

In my role at the GE Foundation , I am lucky enough to meet pioneers with a global vision for health and sustainable development. 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.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2017

Despite spending twice what other developed nations spend on a per capita basis for health care, the United States has a longstanding trend of having lower life expectancy, greater prevalence of chronic disease, and overall poorer health outcomes. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. 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. Insight Center.

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Management Consulted

MAY 7, 2017

Here at MC, we’ve been absolutely thrilled to launch our new series and bring you some juicy insights into the Top 10 Consulting firms in every major consulting city and region around the world. Bain & Company , One Embarcadero Center, Suite 3400, San Francisco, CA, 94111. are in the Bay Area! San Francisco, CA, 94104.

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Harvard Business

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. For example, AiCure and Propeller Health are using very different methods to generate patient medication adherence data. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2016

Executive teams often struggle to land innovations that will significantly grow the business. A chronic problem is their emphasis on searching for breakthrough innovation — the creation of a truly new, highly valued product or service that could redefine their industry and lead to unprecedented revenue growth.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

At Sanford Health, a $4.5 billion rural integrated health care system, we deliver care to over 2.5 All this data clearly represents a rich resource with the potential to improve care, but until recently was underutilized. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

health care system spends almost a third of its resources — $750 billion annually — on unnecessary services and inefficient care. These tools are now being used across the continuum of care, from disease surveillance to chronic disease prevention to identifying patients who are at risk of deterioration.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2017

Physicians, nurses, and others who work on the front lines of patient care are an important potential source for innovations that could improve patients’ health and reduce the cost of care. Boston Children’s Hospital designed an innovation accelerator to overcome these hurdles. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

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

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

JUNE 2, 2017

Today, health systems operate on a spectrum of how involved patients are in the delivery of their care. On one end, traditional providers inform patients of their options, make a recommendation, and proceed to deliver care to a relatively passive patient. Care that is truly delivered by patients themselves.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

Nearly everyone in health care wants to cut waste and reduce unnecessary costs — until the conversation turns to advanced chronic illness and end-of-life care. Fears about “pulling the plug on granny,” no matter how ill she may be, have slowed progress toward value-based care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2017

health care system, a new wave of analytics and technology could help dramatically cut costly and unnecessary hospitalizations while improving outcomes for patients. This will give care providers the chance to intervene much earlier and head off hospitalizations. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

Yet prenatal care in the United States has evolved into a complex regimen of 12 to 14 appointments over the course of a 40-week period, often only to confirm that the expectant mother and her fetus are healthy. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care. How the most innovative providers are creating value.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

It is widely acknowledged that the most effective method of treating these prediabetics so they don’t become full-fledged diabetics is diabetes prevention programs (DPPs) that follow a protocol validated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Insight Center. Transforming Health Care.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

health care system shift from fee for service to value-based approaches that pay providers for quality, they are turning to two models: One is procedure- and DRG-based bundled payments that pay one price for all the care related to treating a condition. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Harvard Business

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

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow. safety).

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Harvard Business

MAY 26, 2017

Several studies have shown that a patient such as Janice might be less likely to have insurance, less likely to have a regular physician , less likely to report symptoms, less likely to seek preventive care, and less informed about the lifestyle changes she should make to improve her health. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

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

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. How does virtual care create value for my practice or organization? We are at the cusp of this transition.

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Harvard Business

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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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2016

healthcare system is undergoing a disruptive transformation as it shifts toward a value-based model that makes providers more accountable to their patients and payors. Healthcare organizations should follow the lead of these pioneers as they transition to value-based care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 12, 2017

This personalized approach could one day help all people with cancer benefit from smart medicines, but only if patients opt to share their sequencing data and other health information and insist that health care organizations comply with their wishes. The reasons for this, of course, are many. Some have privacy concerns.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

The Patient Support Corps seeks to change that by giving patients the tools to make more-informed choices about their care. The idea of patient navigators is a relatively recent phenomenon in health care. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business

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

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Army’s efforts to come to grips with a dramatic upsurge in war-related behavioral conditions over the past 13 years holds valuable lessons for bringing precision mental health care to the civilian world. Insight Center. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 9, 2017

Few issues are more foundational to driving improvements in human health than creating productive, progressive relationships between clinical medicine and the biopharmaceutical industry. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care. How the most innovative providers are creating value.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Not long ago, many services such as tax accounting were delivered episodically and in-person, as most health care still is today. Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. And we describe steps needed to overcome these obstacles, lowering costs and improving quality.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 2, 2016

To do that, the team next looked inside and outside the health care for ideas about how to improve the hospital’s service. At this point, teams of caregivers at the hospital began designing experiments based on the most promising concepts the Rotterdam Eye Hospital innovation hunters had brought back with them.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” To deliver better care, doctors and nurses need to fully understand the patient’s current status in order to predict potential problems. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care. And delayed intervention means fewer treatment options and poorer outcomes. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

The physician attending to him did not have access to the details of Mr. M’s medical history or end-of life-wishes, since his hospital and primary care physician had different electronic medical record (EMR) systems. This uncomfortable scenario will sound familiar to most health care professionals. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

A program we’re involved with at Ariadne Labs , a joint center of innovation between the Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Harvard T.H. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care. It needn’t go this way. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business

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. Like many patients, Jess felt her providers were delivering very little quality of care when defined by the one metric that mattered most to her: time. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Calls for teamwork in health care are as persistent as they are hard to heed. Cross-boundary teamwork is particularly important when caring for patients with multiple chronic illnesses that require clinicians to coordinate across specialties. Insight Center. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2018

health care landscape. This problem is likely to get worse as personalized medicine becomes more common, more patients get to choose between competing private health plans, and employers shrink the coverage they offer employees in order to reduce their labor costs. Insight Center. Health Care’s New Frontier.

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