Medical Treatment - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

to prove that a new medication’s benefits merit a higher price if cheaper, similar drugs are available. The process rewards companies whose drugs are more novel or help patients more, while forcing manufacturers of equally or less effective View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

of the study, Alvin Silk, Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus, and Joel Weissman, associate professor, department of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. The Physicians Report ran in the April issue of the... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 Mar 2013
News

Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System

Shape up, people! That was the message for both the health-care industry and the public at a November forum of more than 150 medical practitioners, health-industry executives, academics, and others who gathered at HBS. Titled "Healing... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

04 Dec 2014
News

Hacking Health Care

The health care industry needs so much improvement, it will take a whole movement to fix it. “The more leaders, the better,” says Luc Sirois (MBA 1997), who sees progress coming not through a single organization, but rather from groups of passionate View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

September 2012 (Revised September 2012)
Course Overview Note

Building Life Science Businesses Fall 2012: Course Outline and Syllabus

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Richard G. Hamermesh

This Course Outline and Syllabus gives an overview of the Fall 2012 class Building Life Science Businesses View Details

Keywords: Healthcare Ventures; Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurs; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Medical Specialties; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Asia; North America; Europe

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01 Mar 2005
News

Better Care at Lower Cost

company called MinuteClinic, with locations in Minneapolis/St. Paul and Baltimore, operates a number of facilities where a nurse-practitioner or physician’s assistant provides an array of basic medical services, from diagnosing and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

private treatment that they and their families can afford. In poor countries, consumers are best advised to keep their own medical records since nothing approaching an electronic record-keeping system is... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

July 2014 (Revised January 2017)
Course Overview Note

Building Life Science Businesses Spring Term 2017: Course Outline and Syllabus

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

This Course Outline and Syllabus gives an overview of the Spring 2016 class Building Life Science Businesses.7 View Details

Keywords: Healthcare Ventures; Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurs; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Medical Specialties; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Asia; North America; Europe

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01 Dec 2018
News

Collaborative Cures

scientific and technological foundations of medical invention are already straining our existing institutions. By thoughtfully approaching business model innovation, we will be more successful in navigating the opportunities and... View Details

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

difficult and time-consuming even in countries with sufficient medical resources, much less in developing countries where the need is great but fewer personnel have the time and training. Harvard researchers wondered: Could programmers... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies

01 Sep 2008
News

Mara Aspinall

“an incredibly dedicated and brilliant group of physicians, as well as patients with such courage and grace that I knew I wanted to do something to get more involved in their battle.” This year she is on a “working sabbatical” at Dana-Farber and Harvard View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2024
News

INK: Taking Care

words in an episode of the Skydeck podcast SKYDECK: Hear more of Giusti’s story in her own words in an episode of the Skydeck podcast Fatal to Fearless tells the story of Giusti’s personal journey from diagnosis through treatment and how,... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2017
News

How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine

tone quality, it was nothing short of a nightmare. After exhausting other treatment options, Frisch chose a radical alternative: having tiny, needle-like electrodes placed inside his brain. Those electrodes are part of a device called... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

17 Aug 2011
News

Breath of Life

Green: Participating in the stem-cell revolution. Courtesy David Green It was the kind of medical miracle that experts say will one day be commonplace. In June, an artificial trachea (windpipe), infused with a tracheal cancer patient’s... View Details

Keywords: stem cell research; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2020
News

AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

treatment of disorders and diseases, including pulmonary nodules, COVID-19, and brain injuries. “AI has improved workflow through higher efficiency and has helped us deliver more personalized care, leading to an enhanced patient... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

August 2013
Course Overview Note

Building Life Science Businesses Fall 2013: Course Outline and Syllabus

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

This Course Outline and Syllabus gives an overview of the Fall 2013 class Building Life Science Businesses. View Details

Keywords: Healthcare Ventures; Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurs; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Medical Specialties; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Asia; North America; Europe

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13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

content. In 2022, Amazon introduced Amazon Clinic, a virtual health care service using AI to provide affordable treatment for common conditions. In October 2023, 10,000 clinicians and staff at the Permanente View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

15 Aug 2019
News

Finding a Fix for Food Allergies

after eating prepared food cooked in a cross-contaminated pan. The couple cofounded End Allergies Together (EAT) to advance scientific and medical research in order to find treatments and cures. Among EAT’s... View Details

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s weaknesses but its profound ingenuity. Within weeks, providers worldwide set up drive-through testing sites, makeshift View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost