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- 2009
- Book
Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care
By: Richard Bohmer
Today's health-care providers face growing criticism - from policy makers and patients alike. As costs continue to spiral upward and concerns about quality of care escalate, the debate has focused on how to finance health care. Yet funding solutions can't...
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Keywords:
Cost Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Service Delivery;
Business Processes;
Organizational Culture
Bohmer, Richard. Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care. Harvard Business Press, 2009.
- 07 Apr 2020
- News
What Will U.S. Health Care Look Like After the Pandemic?
- 18 Dec 2017
- News
Hospital Giants Vie for Patients in Effort to Fend Off New Rivals
- 05 Jul 2012
- News
What Now? Health Care After the Supreme Court's Decision
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
Your patient health care data is most likely scattered throughout the medical universe, in everything from notes scribbled by various doctors to test results resting in far-flung computer systems. So when...
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- June 2017
- Article
A Systematic Approach to Discussing Active Surveillance with Patients with Low-risk Prostate Cancer
By: Behfar Ehdaie, Melissa Assel, Nicole Benfante, Deepak Malhotra and Andrew Vickers
A systematic approach to counseling—using appropriate framing techniques derived from principles studied by negotiation scholars—can be taught to physicians in a one-hour lecture. We found evidence that even this minimal intervention can decrease overtreatment of...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Disorders;
Service Delivery;
Negotiation;
Health Industry
Ehdaie, Behfar, Melissa Assel, Nicole Benfante, Deepak Malhotra, and Andrew Vickers. "A Systematic Approach to Discussing Active Surveillance with Patients with Low-risk Prostate Cancer." European Urology 71, no. 6 (June 2017): 866–871.
- April 2003
- Module Note
Design and Management of Health Care Delivery Processes, The
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer
Discusses the design and management of clinical processes in health care. Presents a framing of the clinical process as a problem-solving process that fundamentally involves learning along two dimensions and at least two levels. The two dimensions are: 1) learning in...
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Keywords:
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Service Delivery;
Management Practices and Processes;
Learning;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J. "Design and Management of Health Care Delivery Processes, The." Harvard Business School Module Note 603-107, April 2003.
- Article
How to End the Plasma Shortage for Coronavirus Patients
Those who have recovered from the virus will donate more blood if given the right incentives.
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Keywords:
COVID-19;
Convalescent Plasma;
Health Pandemics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Market Design;
Strategy
Kominers, Scott Duke. "How to End the Plasma Shortage for Coronavirus Patients." Bloomberg Opinion (May 11, 2020).
Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care
Today's health-care providers face growing criticism - from policy makers and patients alike. As costs continue to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Offering a breath of life for critically ill patients
Patients suffering from diseases such as inoperable tracheal cancer, or those born without a trachea, have been granted a second chance. As biotechnology and surgical expertise progress, Green foresees a future without waiting lists for...
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- 14 Nov 2019
- Video
Health Minute: How Can Technology Improve 21st Century Health Care
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Elevator Pitch: Standard of Care
16.9 million patients in low- and middle-income countries die due to lack of safe access to surgery; in addition, approximately 85,000 medical staff die after exposure to patient-borne pathogens. SurgiBox aims to make surgery safer for...
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- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
information about patients is collected and tracked over time. These latter areas are where I see the questions of quality improvement, cost containment, and value creation ultimately being decided. That said, I see a government-run...
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- Web
MBA Experience - Health Care
DMD/MBA Harvard School of Dental Medicine MBA/MPP Harvard Kennedy School MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences Harvard Department of Stem Cell & Regenerative Biology MS/MBA Engineering Sciences Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences 600+...
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- September 2003 (Revised January 2005)
- Case
Bridges to Excellence: Bringing Quality Health Care to Life
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Ingrid Marie Nembhard and Robert Galvin
General Electric launched Bridges to Excellence Diabetes Care Link, a program through which enrolled physicians receive bonuses of up to 10% of their salary for delivering quality care to diabetic patients covered by a participating employer or health plan. A day...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Motivation and Incentives;
Programs;
Ethics;
Quality;
Moral Sensibility;
Service Delivery;
Compensation and Benefits;
Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Ingrid Marie Nembhard, and Robert Galvin. "Bridges to Excellence: Bringing Quality Health Care to Life." Harvard Business School Case 604-030, September 2003. (Revised January 2005.)
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
taking care of ill patients and how we manage that act, how you design the processes that execute on that goal, and how you design the organizations that support those processes." I think Harvard and...
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- 2017
- Working Paper
Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care
By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger
In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an...
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Keywords:
Health Care and Treatment;
Performance Efficiency;
Performance Productivity;
Mathematical Methods
Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas O. Staiger. "Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 24035, November 2017.
- 29 Jun 2015
- News
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
- Article
Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Catherine H. MacLean, Alexander Dresner, Derek A. Haas and Thomas W. Feeley
Many health care organizations are striving to implement a value agenda that delivers better patient outcomes at lower cost, medical condition by medical condition. To accelerate the dissemination and adoption of the value agenda, across many more medical conditions,...
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Kaplan, Robert S., Catherine H. MacLean, Alexander Dresner, Derek A. Haas, and Thomas W. Feeley. "Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office." Harvard Business Review (website) (December 2, 2015). (Part of the “Leading Change in Health Care” series, a collaboration of the editors of Harvard Business Review and NEJM Group.)