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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
integration doesn't guarantee that you can do everything well simultaneously. Focus, we've discovered, is critical. What does "focus" mean in terms of the health-care industry? It means more integrated facilities that center on providing all the care for one View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
AI Enhances Diagnostic Care
Tomography) scanner at MRC helps doctors diagnose diseases and abnormalities. Augmented Intelligence The American Medical Association uses the term “augmented intelligence” as a conceptualization of artificial intelligence that focuses on... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
efficiency and effectiveness lie. The 20 percent have chronic diseases or disabilities, such as bad backs, heart disease, AIDS, diabetes, or asthma. These patients need the care of many different specialists: A diabetic, for instance,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Smriti Jayaraman
diminishes both the carbon footprint and utility bill of an American household, or a rural Internet kiosk that provides market prices to Brazilian fisherman by day and disease diagnoses by night. If technology can be an enabler for good,... View Details
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
Implications for Non-communicable Disease Control Strategies By: Balsari, S., P. Vemulapalli, M. Gofine, K. Oswal, R. Merchant, S. Saunik, G. Greenough, and T. Khanna Abstract—Cardiovascular disease is the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
doctorate in biomedical engineering and readily admits he still identifies as a scientist, is equally excited about the big-picture impact of receiving orphan drug and rare pediatric disease designations. “Disabling hearing loss affects... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
keep close watch over them. In 2015, Dr. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, highlighted the problem. “A local food safety problem can rapidly become an international emergency,” she wrote in a statement. “Investigation of an outbreak of... View Details
- Profile
Jordan Amadio
physician/scientists. Jordan is conducting lab investigations into neurogenetics — the ways genes contribute to normal brain development and to disease states. Turning research into practical benefits "Science has always been my... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Pedal Mettle
player who was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease in 1995, Berté saw the cancer return six months after she completed her initial treatment. She then enrolled in a clinical trial including chemotherapy, radiation, and a stem-cell... View Details
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
nonprofit, the Brain Tumor Network (BTN), which grew out of a Sontag Foundation support group for brain cancer patients and caregivers in Northern Florida that Rick and Susan relied on as they coped with her disease and its aftereffects.... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
who wrote, "... legislative and regulatory response treats the symptoms (means) rather than the disease (motivation). Transparency is only as successful as the least creative obscurantist." He recommends, among other things,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
changed the world at breathtaking speed. From that perspective, it seemed “inadequate and unacceptable,” as he puts it, that so little progress had been made to treat a dreaded disease identified more than a century ago and now afflicting... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives
Above: photo by Len Rubenstein No disease can be slowed or stopped until it is diagnosed. For diseases with available treatments, the facts are simple: The earlier they are detected, the higher the survival... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
symptoms of diseases like diabetes or congestive heart failure. Before the implantable congestive heart failure monitor, for example, we had very poor diagnostic tools to alert the need for ASAP therapy, but these sensors can now alert... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
the standards that people use in making judgments. The authors employed a novel method to test for, and rule out, such scale recalibration in self-reports of well-being. Design: The authors asked patients with chronic illness (either lung View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
The football season is about to begin, a familiar signal that summer is over. The game is a huge money-maker on one level and a powerful societal binding agent at another — think Friday Night Lights. But increasing revelations about brain damage and View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
cardiovascular disease. In addition, apart from any possible therapeutic benefits, embryonic stem-cell research could play a central role in helping to understand the nature and development of disease generally. Spar, the Spangler Family... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
ensures an intervention reaches all those who need it, at the lowest price and in the shortest amount of time." Could a similar, market-driven approach be enlisted in the world's fight against disease and illness? As Chu notes, commerce... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
newly opened facility to accommodate its vaccine development work, and CEO Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170) welcomed input on the design from the government’s infectious disease experts. For two years, Moderna had been working closely... View Details
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The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
to better assess value at MD Anderson Cancer Center Creating proposed bundled payments for major disease types in order to meet a changing health care reimbursement landscape Fostering the better use of electronic medical records and... View Details