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- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
techniques, the changes in reimbursement for free-standing ambulatory surgery centers, the rise of telemedicine, and consumers’ preferences for surgery outside of the hospitals, will be accelerated by the...
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by Danielle Kost
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
against heart disease—such as exercise and diet programs—in the same way that angioplasties and bypass surgeries are funded. Despite compelling statistics that show preventive measures are far more effective and would cost much less than...
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- 24 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works
tests. Now both companies are going all out on testing. Dr. Gianrico Farrugia, CEO of Mayo Clinic, was faced with the painful decision to shut down all elective surgery in order to focus treating COVID-19 patients and other emergency...
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- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
laws in their own states.) The decrease in patents was highest in the riskier specialties, such as surgery and orthopedics, where liability is potentially high; it was lowest in comparatively low-risk specialties such as dentistry and...
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- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
needed MICU beds, forcing the patients' physicians to search for available beds on Meldon's other intensive care units. The Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) and the Thoracic Surgery Intensive Care Unit (TSICU) had available beds, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
startup scene. In addition to moving home, she'd had open heart surgery and changed jobs several times. Meanwhile, Egypt had become a hotbed of startup activity. Last fall, Enan stepped into the role of partner at San Francisco-based VC...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
financial markets. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55747 February 2019 Annals of Surgery Burnout in Surgery Viewed Through the Lens of Psychological Safety By: Swendiman,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
based on an advertisement (77%). Fifty-two percent of patient respondents recalled seeing or hearing advertisements related to hip or knee arthroplasty. These patients were more likely to request a specific type of surgery or brand of...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
by health insurance, such as laser eye surgery and infertility counseling. "For the exchange to work, there has to be a value proposition for both sides," Slavitt explained. "Providers today live in a world where people they have...
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- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
determining the appropriate deployment of teams this way: "Asking a simple question about teamwork's outcomes is akin to querying, 'Is surgery good or bad?' Obviously, the answer is, 'it depends.' Clearly, there are many factors relating...
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by James Heskett
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
healthcare services is taking place from Asia to Africa. In India, the Avarind Eye Hospital provides routine eye surgeries to the highest quality standards at perhaps a tenth of the developed country price. A mass production approach to...
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- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
fields. Can you imagine doing brain surgery without proper training? Or playing the cello at Carnegie Hall or tennis at Wimbledon without years of training and practice? Just as you cannot learn these skills solely in the classroom,...
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by Bill George
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
and the other focused on cardiac surgery teams. She found that differences in psychological safety indeed predicted a team's ability to learn and cope with change effectively — a consistent result across very different organizational...
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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
is the value equation’s denominator: cost measurement is easier in medical conditions that have more standardized care pathways with fewer areas of patient variation. Therefore, conditions such as osteoarthritis of the knee requiring View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
he said, patients had to be "almost dead" before they could be treated for coronary artery disease with open-heart bypass surgery. The surgery was only available at select academic medical centers at great cost and...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
diagnosis right saves a lot of wasted and unnecessary treatment, so costs go down. Avoiding errors reduces costs. More skilled or less invasive surgery allows the patient to go home quicker, and costs go down. The lowest costs of all...
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- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
healthcare, to make it more feasible for other entrepreneurs to do similar work. "The odds against succeeding in a developing country are severe," he said. Robin Hood Via London Born and raised in India, Shetty went to medical school in Mangalore and trained...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
for example, became Jefferson’s adopted home following his surgery and recuperation. As a White House Fellow working in the Department of Commerce, he organized the historic first trip of the White House Fellows to Hawaii. Within two...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
much mid-cap European stock you should have in your portfolio, any more than it would enable you to perform surgery on yourself." Intelligence is not the issue, he emphasizes; it really is a question of knowledge and time. Retirement...
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- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
technologies, thereby leading to the development of a constituency of physicians around each technology. For example, when angioplasty entered mainstream use in the 1980s, most hospitals that already had cardiac surgery programs felt that...
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