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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
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Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
78.6yrs is the US life expectancy which is lower than many nations who spend far less on health care 5.9deaths per 1000 births is the US infant mortality rate which is higher than many nations spending far less on thealth care....
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- February 1986
- Article
Design of a Management Support System for Hospital Strategic Planning
By: L. M. Applegate, R. O. Mason and D. Thorpe
Applegate, L. M., R. O. Mason, and D. Thorpe. "Design of a Management Support System for Hospital Strategic Planning." Journal of Medical Systems 10, no. 1 (February 1986): 79–95.
- 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
- 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...
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- 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...
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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...
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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
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Health Care
- 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...
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Levine, David I., and Michael W. Toffel. "Quality Management and Job Quality: How the ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management Systems Affects Employees and Employers." Management Science 56, no. 6 (June 2010): 978–996. (Appendix. Profiled by industry practitioners in Quality Digest, Quality Progress, ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB).)
- 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...
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Chandra, Amitabh, Pragya Kakani, and Adam Sacarny. "Hospital Allocation and Racial Disparities in Health Care." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28018, November 2020.
- 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
- 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...
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- 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...
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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
- 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...
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- January 1995
- Teaching Note
Becton Dickinson and Company - Vacutainer Systems Division (Condensed) TN
Teaching Note for (9-592-037).
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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...
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- 1 PM – 2 PM EDT, 17 Sep 2015
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Risk of Unfunded Public Pension Fund and Health Care Benefits in the US
Detroit is the canary in the coal mine on the issue of unfunded pension and health care liabilities. Had the city not declared bankruptcy, it was projected that 67% of every incremental revenue dollar would have been allocated to these legacy benefits by 2017. Yet even...
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Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems
By: Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes and Alyson Falwell
Objective To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital work systems (operational failures) to the safety and efficiency of hospitals, and to contrast these concerns with national patient safety initiatives.
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Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
United States
Tucker, Anita L., Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes, and Alyson Falwell. "Front-line Staff Perspectives on Opportunities for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems." Health Services Research 43, nos. 5, pt.2 (October 2008).
- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care
Clubs News Clubs News Toronto Alumni Compare Canadian and US Health Care Systems In partnership with the Cleveland Clinic Canada, the HBS Club of Toronto hosted 40 alumni on September 12 for a lively panel...
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