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  • February 2014
  • Article

Developing a System to Track Meaningful Outcome Measures in Head and Neck Cancer Treatment

By: Ronald S. Walters, Heidi W. Albright, Randal S. Weber, Thomas W. Feeley, Ehab Y. Hanna, Scott B. Cantor, Carol M. Lewis and Thomas W. Burke
The health care industry, including consumers, providers, and payers of health care, recognize the importance of developing meaningful, patient-centered measures. This article describes our experience using an existing electronic medical record largely based on free... View Details
Keywords: Cancer Treatment; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Outcomes Measurement; Health Care and Treatment; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry; North and Central America
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  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform

Related Links Read about other efforts in healthcare delivery Three HBS students spent much of the last academic year helping a leading Boston hospital answer one of the most important questions in health-care management: how to create a new payment View Details
Keywords: bundling; Health, Social Assistance
  • Web

Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

78.6 yrs is the US life expectancy which is lower than many nations who spend far less on health care 5.9 deaths per 1000 births is the US infant mortality rate which is higher than many nations spending far less on thealth care.... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.

$215 depending on the type of visit. That’s despite the fact that Duke has an established electronic health record (EHR) system and an efficient, centralized billing department, Kaplan says. Administrative... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

during a Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship at HBS. The startup employs a system for collecting reproductive cell samples from a tampon, which the customer sends to the lab for genomic analysis. The lab then provides... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care

By: Amitabh Chandra, Pragya Kakani and Adam Sacarny
We develop a simple framework to measure the role of hospital allocation in racial disparities in health care and use it to study Black and white Medicare patients who are treated for heart attacks—a condition where virtually everyone receives care, hospital care is... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Equality and Inequality; Race; Analysis
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  • 02 Jul 2018
  • Blog Post

Pursuing A Passion in Health Care

and eventually drafting up the business case (where I get to apply my net present value and weighted average cost of capital skills from first-year finance classes!). I’ve enjoyed the exposure to the Danaher lean processes and kaizen-based View Details
Keywords: Health Care
  • 01 Jan 1986
  • Conference Presentation

Design of a Management Support System for Hospital Strategic Planning

By: L. M. Applegate, R. O. Mason and D. Thorpe
Keywords: Design; Management Systems; Strategic Planning; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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  • 31 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

automatically covers all residents in its National Health Service, a public system with no out-of-pocket costs, and Germany and Israel have systems of coverage through... View Details
Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Health; Health
  • 2023
  • Article

Dynamic HTA for Digital Health Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges for Patient-Centered Evaluation

By: Jan B. Brönneke, Annika Herr, Simon Reif and Ariel D. Stern
Germany’s 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale-Versorgung-Gesetz, or DVG) created a number of opportunities for the digital transformation of the health care delivery system. Key among these was the creation of a reimbursement pathway for patient-centered digital... View Details
Keywords: Digital Transformation; Applications and Software; Product Development; Insurance; Policy; Health Industry; Germany
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  • June 2010
  • Article

Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers

By: David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
Several studies have examined how the ISO 9001 Quality Management System standard predicts changes in organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to explore how employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety... View Details
Keywords: Quality; Management; Standards; Employees; Wages; Organizations; Profit; Safety; Health; Policy
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  • 21 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Faculty Development helped manage the conference. Herzlinger has been a prolific case author in the field of health care innovations. These include: Amil and the Health Care View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Health
  • 02 Mar 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

system, the kind that used to be referred to by detractors as "socialized medicine." Worse yet, the current system leaves more than 40 million Americans without health insurance. Because many are not... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 20 Jul 2020
  • Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

their dominance has lulled them into somnolence. Private insurers could compete by reducing the estimated waste in the health care system of $900 billion; experts estimate that at least $250 billion could be... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Health
  • February 1986
  • Article

Design of a Management Support System for Hospital Strategic Planning

By: L. M. Applegate, R. O. Mason and D. Thorpe
Keywords: Design; Management; System; Planning; Health Industry
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  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution

need to have universal health insurance. We don't have it now because it costs too much. But a market-driven health-care system will lower costs, so it will be more feasible to provide insurance to the poor... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care

health information network are expected to be substantial. A RAND Corporation study estimates savings to the U.S. health-care system of up to $162 billion a year by improving medical-care delivery, reducing... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Changing Old Systems to Provide New Chances for Young Americans

fact that we have 4.4 million young people who are disconnected from any mainstream activity?” he asks. “So we think a lot about policy, think about what systems—educational, health care, adjudication—why aren’t those View Details
  • 04 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

that the system isn't set up to incentivize health care workers to do that. "The reason it's never done is that nobody gets paid to do it .there's no incentive to do anything," Cutler said.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 07 Aug 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

Summing Up Does U.S. health care need more pull or push? There are clear symptoms that something is wrong with U.S. health care. In Edward Hare's words, "It's making us uncompetitive and turning us... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health