The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

As research in the British Medical Journal reveals, however, such an approach still requires a trained mental health professional, and in England alone there is such a shortage that around 1.5 million people are currently waiting for mental health treatment.

Health Care 126

Health Care Crisis Constraint Cost 126

Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

—The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

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Quality Health Care Case Study Education 70

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 28, 2020

million people, or roughly 40% of the entire Latino workforce in those six states, are at high risk of having their work displaced by technology. Invest in broadband access and programs that connect Latinos with digital technologies. In total, they believe over 7.1

Health Care 91

Health Care Education Insurance Retail 91

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The project, undertaken by South African civic technology company Grassroots, is believed to be the first training course delivered entirely on WhatsApp. They chose WhatsApp as their platform for the delivery of the courses because they wanted to reach organizers who often lack access to either online or face-to-face training.

Education 92

Education Storytelling Health Care Content 92

Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

They start by sharing the “Seductive Seven” which is a list of common tactics organizations may use to respond to problems: More technology. More training and communication. For example, we can see data dashboards, organization charts, spreadsheets, new strategic plans, or the latest new technology trend bouncing around social media.

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Constraint PR Policies Tactics 109

Harvard Business Review

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.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Technology Peer Review 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

In my 20 years of researching and teaching innovation, one consistent theme stands out: breakthrough innovation often comes from outsiders. To accelerate innovation in healthcare technology we need to give creative people who don’t have traditional health science backgrounds more opportunities to participate.

Health Care 8

Health Care Innovation Incentives How To 8

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 14, 2019

A new approach to these technologies would address the need for the algorithms to learn and adapt when used in the real world,” the FDA say. “It Nonetheless, the agency accept that it’s vital that they try, as the benefits from the technology can be considerable.

Power 71

Power Health Care Software Learning-by-Doing 71

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

Many communities in emerging markets receive their front-line primary health care from community health care workers. In South Africa, for instance, 50 percent of all health care providers are community workers. In fact, Vodafone spun out the work through the creation of a Mobile Health Unit in January 2010.

Health Care 14

Health Care Innovation Licensing Banking 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Provide financial security against the costs of ill-health. US health care costs are currently 17% of GDP ($2.5

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Health Care Innovation GDP Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. jennifer maravillas for hbr.

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Health Care Innovation Insurance Disruptive Innovation 8

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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Health Care Metrics Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The challenge that we face — making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people — is not unique to health care.

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Health Care Disruptive Innovation Christensen Business Model 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2018

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S.

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Health Care Cost Entrepreneur Innovation 8

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.

Health Care 87

Health Care Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Politics 87

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

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.

Health Care 74

Health Care Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Politics 74

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

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. The result is a constellation of technologies that rarely connect, to the detriment of patient safety, quality, and value.

Health Care 8

Health Care Engineering System Gordon 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Health care remains one of the few services that require people to have a face-to-face interaction to obtain access. In January 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new provider reimbursement code for non–face-to-face health care services for patients who have chronic medical conditions.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Technology Wireless 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

If you've not yet heard of telemedicine or think that it's not a great way to deliver quality health care, you may want to read this. Telemedicine, made possible by the availability of mobile networks, is revolutionizing health care. The innovation is in the software that provides the connectivity. But in the U.S.

Health Care 15

Health Care Cost Software Training 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. The ramifications for traditional care providers typically dominated by hospitals is going to be big and may happen fast. Carol Yepes/Getty Images. But back to the insurers.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Incentives Venture Funding 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

Can reverse innovation — innovations originating from poor countries — provide one important answer? the approach is to spend more money on major technological advances and come up with innovative products and solutions. Most definitely. In the U.S., Poor countries face severe resource constraints.

Health Care 16

Health Care Cost Constraint Innovation 16

Harvard Business Review

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. Which technology tools will meet the demographic, clinical, and business needs for these services? Innovating for Value in Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Consultative Video Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They can use their market power (they direct the bulk of health care dollars) and understanding of different consumer segments to create innovative products, services, and partnerships that address consumers’ needs. In the process, they can help move us all toward a low-cost, value-based health care system.

Health Care 10

Health Care Insurance Industry Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Conflict in health care has dominated the news in the United States lately with the political showdown over the Affordable Care Act followed by the shaky launch of the federal health insurance exchange. We have been engaged in health care negotiation and conflict resolution for two decades.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Resistance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The pressures for fundamental change in health care have been building for decades, but meaningful change has been limited while the urgency of change only grows. There is only one real solution, which is to dramatically increase the value of health care. And with such deep societal concerns about health care spending?

Health Care 9

Health Care How To Cost System 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

GE’s best path to organic growth is to continue the world-changing innovation it has always been known for. In marketing, we resolved to fuel that innovation, and also to make our own efforts as creative and valuable as the products coming out of our R&D labs. Go to new places. Shape the market early.

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Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 16

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. Leading Change in Health Care. A clinician by training, she had previous experience managing quality-improvement programs at a large national payer. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Management Cost Efficiency 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.

Innovation 8

Innovation Health Care Operations Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The transformation of health care continues at a rapid pace, bringing opportunities and challenges for health care providers to deliver improved clinical outcomes at lower costs. And many health care systems continue to struggle to reliably deliver evidence-based care.

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Cost Health Care Venture Capitalist Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2011

These three aspects of emerging markets require innovations that can subsequently be taken global — a phenomenon known as " reverse innovation." However, a fourth and powerful driver of reverse innovation is the comparative absence of intermediaries: an institutional gap.

Innovation 15

Innovation Health Care Incubator Competitive Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

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. Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 10

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

GE’s best path to organic growth is to continue the world-changing innovation it has always been known for. In marketing, we resolved to fuel that innovation, and also to make our own efforts as creative and valuable as the products coming out of our R&D labs. Go to new places. Shape the market early.

Innovation 8

Innovation Marketing Incubator Class 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

Technology to the rescue? One of the promising areas supported by technology is at the intersection of the internet and online technologies with the physical world: the “internet of things” (IoT). The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The size and layout of a room, whether a bed sits in the middle or against a wall (even which wall), how much space is maintained for patients to walk versus how many beds or operating equipment can be accommodated, have not been considered predictors of health outcomes in the past. The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

Health Care 8

Health Care Long-term Mayo Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Boosting the productivity of health care is essential, given how fast this sector is growing. Health-care spending already accounts for 10% of GDP in developed economies and an average of 6% of GDP in the four leading emerging economies — Brazil, China, India, and Russia. We disagree.

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