Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2018

Across industrial sectors, from healthcare to energy, from construction to retail, engineers are creating new technologies with potentially disruptive implications for the current architectural order of the global economy. One of the technologies, an “ AI doctor ”, shows great promise for the future of healthcare in Africa.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

Voice-powered technologies such as Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, and Cortana, are changing the way people shop, drive cars, and manage their homes. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Organ transplant. Hayon Thapaliya for HBR. households by 2022.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The acceleration of digital technology has enabled the disruption of many disparate industries. Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data. Taking the Pulse of Health Care Transformation.

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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. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Civil Rights. The Leading Edge of Health Care. billion per year.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

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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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. health care system woefully underperform relative to those made in health care in other countries. Yet, investments in the U.S.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Participants then receive monthly support via check-ins with health coaches for an additional eight months. A number of organizations — including the YMCA, the American Association of Diabetes Educators, and the Diabetes Prevention and Control Alliance — provide in-person DPPs at various locations. Transforming Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Technological improvements in health care have given us the quality of life we enjoy today. But chronic conditions, end-of-life care, and an aging society will bankrupt the United States if it doesn’t make dramatic changes to its health care system. health care is stuck in the craft mode.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

I like to share interesting articles (and other resources) that provide examples of organizations applying Deming’s ideas in practice. Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). is a model I believe in.

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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. health care keeps getting costlier.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2015

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. Because data breaches cannot be prevented, preparation is an organization’s only line of defense.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Meanwhile, one of my mentees, Sidney Kushner **, has been creating CCChampions , an organization that creates connections between professional athletes and children with cancer to provide a source of inspiration and excitement during a very trying time in children’s lives. This feast has become an annual tradition and on Sept.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

One of the main justifications for the mergers and acquisitions sweeping the health care industry is greater integration between the physicians and teams that care for patients. We chose to support independent medical centers by creating the Mayo Clinic Care Network. But consolidation does not ensure integration.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2012

If you've had a bad experience with an operational improvement effort (like Six Sigma or Business Reengineering), or if you haven't given it much attention lately, you should take a fresh look. About ten years ago they spread to financial services and, in the past five years, more deeply into health care and services.

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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.

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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. 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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2017

But in health care, few things work as expected. One big reason why is that hospitals purchase technologies without requiring that they communicate with each other. Health care’s safety and quality challenges are exacerbated by its procurement problem. Health care is woefully underengineered.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2017

The Leading Edge of Health Care. The bulk of HCIT investment supports startups that sell data — clinical or operational information that is otherwise difficult for clients to obtain or to organize. ” In health care, providers don’t want data, they want solutions that lower costs and improve outcomes.

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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. For its part, the RelayHealth clinical business team is fiercely protective of its culture and thinks of itself as a nimble, high-performing, risk-taking group inside the larger organization.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. area, a move it describes as “driven largely by health care reform, which demands an integrated regional network.&# Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Johns Hopkins is not alone. .&#

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Editor's note: This post is the first in a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Supposedly, everyone working in health care wants the same thing: to help people get and stay healthy.

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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?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

And they are coming soon to more sophisticated domains, such as health care. Much of the discussion about the Internet of Things has focused on the technology that makes it possible, but the technology is the easiest part. And Disney was very careful not to use the information in ways that could be considered creepy.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

The cultural and operational challenge for incumbent financial services firms was enormous. Healthcare organizations should follow the lead of these pioneers as they transition to value-based care. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Turn services into products. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

It is becoming increasingly rare to find an individual or organization that has not yet been required to team with others. The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Teams of health care professionals, as found in clinics and hospitals.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

health care system. Many have received unpleasant surprises, such as a medical bill they expected to be covered by their health insurance or an unexpectedly expensive bill for a simple service. We used this index to assess how health care literacy affected the performance of nine consumer experience touchpoints.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Building market share by delivering rich, intuitive experiences is a key goal for all organizations. For health insurers, this customer centricity is an imperative. Individual consumers now have increasing freedom to shop for health plans and to choose how they spend their healthcare dollars. Focus on the member experience.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Southwest Airlines, for example, has figured out how to do well the two operational things that matter most: Keep more planes in the sky more often, and fill each of them up more, and more often, than anyone else. These examples are relevant to health care for two reasons. Transforming Health Care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2018

Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. health care system. We have identified how hospitals’ budgeting systems have erected three distinct barriers to the adoption of technology. Hospitals are typically organized by clinical departments (e.g., Gillian Blease/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2015

We are witnessing an unprecedented transformation of the health care industry. Physicians and nurses are being called upon to lead these new health care enterprises — and are assuming a higher level of influence in the business of health care than ever before.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

But most organizations aren’t set up for getting the most out of non-traditional employment relationships. In this excerpt from their book, Agile Talent , Younger and Smallwood explain how to align your organization with the needs and expectations of a workforce that is increasingly external, project-based, and flexible.

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