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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
the hospital. We have deployed 1,500 iPads in COVID-positive patient rooms, which doctors and nurses use to communicate with patients. It decreases the number of times our staff have to go into the room and the amount of personal...
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- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
savings. In the area of prevention, the spread of ever-cheaper mobile smart phones enables citizens in remote rural areas to receive online medical consultations, treatment suggestions, and prescriptions. Readings on diagnostic machines in clinics can be taken by View Details
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
doctor, palliative care specialist, nurse coordinator, clinical pharmacy specialist, and behavioral and social service specialists. The team focuses on the highest-risk patients to see if the new, proactive care model can improve patient,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
a satellite capability to inform people. There’s no insurance market, so he has to figure out a rudimentary insurance system. There’s no physical transport, so he has to physically bring the patients there. There’s no technical help, so he has to build View Details
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/PEL073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-102 AIP Healthcare Japan: Investing in Japan's Retirement Home Market The CEO of a health-care based REIT is considering alternative nursing home...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
reduced. Decision making was now crisper and more responsive, even though there was little change in the hospital's senior staff or medical leadership. Morale, not surprisingly, was up as well. To take just one indicator, annual nursing...
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by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
in a wheelchair, badly bruised from injuries sustained the day before that had been caused by falling in her home as a result of poor eyesight. “She said she couldn’t take it anymore and felt it just wasn’t worth going on like this,” Leger recalls. Following Soledad’s...
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Jennifer Myers
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
supplement:http://hbr.org/search/710023-PDF-ENG Home Nursing of North Carolina Richard S. Ruback and Royce YudkoffHarvard Business School Case 212-120 Ari Medoff's (HBS '11) goal was to control his own professional destiny by owning his...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
not solved) by walk-in retail health-care organizations such as the MinuteClinic, staffed by nurse practitioners, inside CVS/pharmacy stores. “The clinics and nurse practitioners have specific protocols to...
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- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
Gerstner (HBS MBA '65), [General Electric's] Jack Welch, and [Xerox's] Ann Mulcahy, who can manage with multiple styles, but that's rare." Lessons Learned In addition to nursing the pain of the past season, Boston's baseball fans are...
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- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
succeed in the context of the art market where exclusive access is a prime driver of value? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812047-PDF-ENG Telemonitoring at Visiting Nurse Health System F. Warren McFarlan, Mark...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
swelling as the doctors had hoped. As one day in the hospital became two and then three and four, doctors tried antibiotics, but to no avail. On the sixth day of his stay, Kevin was no better than when he was admitted. Then Kevin’s nurse...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
nurses speak up about medication administration problems and contribute improvement ideas. We find that each component provides its own contribution to organizational performance. Blockages encourage people to suggest improvement ideas,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
teenage sons.” By example: “My parents didn’t teach me their values around work and family—I absorbed them through their example and expectations. My mother was a nurse who was always helping others, and my dad chose to work as a doctor...
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- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
Non-physician providers, such as nurse practitioners and medical assistants, have been given greater latitude to practice independently. And those individuals who are actually able to get tested for COVID-19 can do so by driving through a...
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by Danielle Kost
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
What do software engineers, flight attendants, factory workers, mail carriers, truck drivers, and hospital nurses have in common? According to HBS professor Michel Anteby, these professions—and many others just as dissimilar, maybe even...
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.
knowing the high-stakes industry suffers from significant levels of turnover and spends an inordinate amount of time and money onboarding new staff. In fact, one industry source estimated nurse turnover at more than 20 percent, which...
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- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
multi-method study of a hospital emergency department (ED) redesign. Before the redesign, people coordinated in ad-hoc groupings, which provided flexibility because any nurse could work with any doctor, but these groupings were limited in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
would benefit both firms and consumers to increase the cap on unskilled immigrants in specific industries such as hospitality, nursing homes, and agriculture. Here, foreign-born workers can work in jobs that native-born workers are...
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by Rachel Layne
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
help societies cope with aging, both by working in nursing homes and assisting older natives and by contributing to the pension system. But what about Europe? Besides economic structure, Europe—and to some extent the US—today differs from...
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by Marco Tabellini