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Cost Management and Management Control Systems in Hospitals
By: V.G. Narayanan
Hospitals tend not to have very good cost accounting and control systems. More broadly, there is enormous opportunity for managing costs and aligning incentives in the health care industry. I am studying how cost accounting methods can be used to... View Details
- November 2011 (Revised August 2012)
- Case
Healthymagination at GE Healthcare Systems
By: Vineet Kumar and V. Kasturi Rangan
Jeff Immelt, the CEO of GE, introduced a new innovation strategy named "healthymagination" in 2009. With cost, quality, and access as its three pillars, healthymagination ensures a strong focus for new product introduction efforts all around GE. But will this focus...
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Keywords:
Innovation and Invention;
Product Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Kumar, Vineet, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Healthymagination at GE Healthcare Systems." Harvard Business School Case 512-039, November 2011. (Revised August 2012.)
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
between the above two operating systems. Because each of the four components of a system for delivering health care continues to change, ongoing redesign—that both reacts to, and creates, new knowledge and...
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- November 2023
- Article
Federated Electronic Health Records for the European Health Data Space
By: René Raab, Arne Küderle, Anastasiya Zakreuskaya, Ariel Dora Stern, Jochen Klucken, Georgios Kaissis, Daniel Rueckert, Susanne Boll, Roland Eils, Harald Wagener and Bjoern Eskofier
The European Commission's draft for the European Health Data Space (EHDS) aims to empower citizens to access their personal health data and share it with physicians and other health-care providers. It further defines procedures for the secondary use of electronic...
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Keywords:
Analytics and Data Science;
Cybersecurity;
Information Management;
Knowledge Sharing;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Health Industry
Raab, René, Arne Küderle, Anastasiya Zakreuskaya, Ariel Dora Stern, Jochen Klucken, Georgios Kaissis, Daniel Rueckert, Susanne Boll, Roland Eils, Harald Wagener, and Bjoern Eskofier. "Federated Electronic Health Records for the European Health Data Space." Lancet Digital Health 5, no. 11 (November 2023): e840–e847.
- August 2001 (Revised March 2008)
- Case
Helios Health (A)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Alfred Martin
Helios PC system provides personalized drug information to the patients in the doctor's waiting room. It has met with considerable consumer acceptance and a very high return for the drug companies that sponsor it. What price should it charge them for the service?
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Price;
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Publishing;
Innovation and Invention;
Product Marketing;
Demand and Consumers;
Health Industry;
Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Alfred Martin. "Helios Health (A)." Harvard Business School Case 302-022, August 2001. (Revised March 2008.)
- 05 Mar 2010
- News
Health Care: The Simple Solution
- 2020
- Working Paper
Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to...
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Keywords:
After-tax Income;
Consumer-driven Health Care;
Health Care Costs;
Health Insurance;
Income Inequality;
Tax Policy;
Health Care and Treatment;
Cost;
Insurance;
Employees;
Income;
Taxation;
Policy;
United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Barak D. Richman. "Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice." Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series, No. 2020-4, December 2019. (Revised January 2021.)
- January 2010
- Case
Ledina Lushko: Navigating Health Care Delivery
By: Sachin H Jain, Michael E. Porter, Fatima Akrouh and Carolyn Daly
Ledina Lushko was diagnosed with Adrenal Cortical Carcinoma in 2008 and sought care at a highly regarded medical institution in the United States. This case lays out her journey through the health care system in detail and all of the effort involved in finding...
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Keywords:
Health;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Disorders;
Service Delivery;
Health Industry;
United States
Jain, Sachin H., Michael E. Porter, Fatima Akrouh, and Carolyn Daly. "Ledina Lushko: Navigating Health Care Delivery." Harvard Business School Case 710-459, January 2010.
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Health Care Needs Real Competition
- 09 Oct 2009
- News
A Better Health Care Alternative
- 31 Oct 2022
- Video
Health Minute: Robert Huckman
- Article
Designing Transparency Systems for Medical Care Prices
By: David Cutler and Leemore S. Dafny
In the contentious political environment surrounding health care reform, calls for increased price transparency in health care are among the few areas of general agreement. But the wrong kind of transparency could actually harm patients, rather than help them.
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Cutler, David, and Leemore S. Dafny. "Designing Transparency Systems for Medical Care Prices." New England Journal of Medicine 364, no. 10 (March 10, 2011): 894–895.
- January 2020
- Article
Assessing the Safety of Electronic Health Records: A National Longitudinal Study of Medication-related Decision Support
By: A Jay Holmgren, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Melissa Danforth, David Classen and David Bates
Background Electronic health records (EHR) can improve safety via computerised physician order entry with clinical decision support, designed in part to alert providers and prevent potential adverse drug events at entry and before they reach the patient....
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Keywords:
Hospital;
Electronic Health Records;
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Technology;
Safety;
Performance;
Quality;
Performance Improvement
Holmgren, A Jay, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Melissa Danforth, David Classen, and David Bates. "Assessing the Safety of Electronic Health Records: A National Longitudinal Study of Medication-related Decision Support." BMJ Quality & Safety 29, no. 1 (January 2020): 52–59.
- 17 Oct 2013
- News
An Obstacle to Patient-Centered Care: Poor Supply Systems
- February 2008
- Teaching Note
ThedaCare: System Strategy (TN)
By: Michael E. Porter and Sachin H. Jain
Teaching Note for 708-424.
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- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
Wittenberg put it, " management will never fix the health care system (it) can promote standardization and mass production (but) the actions of individual managers will have no effect on the overall...
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- 2018
- Book
Food Citizenship: Food System Advocates in an Era of Distrust
By: Ray A. Goldberg
The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy. As agribusiness-studies pioneer Ray Goldberg suggests, it is also the largest health system on the planet. And it is changing fast. Its size and importance to human, environmental, and economic...
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Keywords:
Food;
System;
Global Range;
Health;
Environmental Sustainability;
Development Economics;
Partners and Partnerships;
Public Opinion;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
Goldberg, Ray A. Food Citizenship: Food System Advocates in an Era of Distrust. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Thinking Outside the Box (12): The Benefits of Increased Transparency in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance for the 180 Million Insured
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
Economists have long noted that the tax exclusion of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) caused workers to purchase health plans that differ in price and other characteristics from those they would otherwise choose for themselves. We explore the short-term and long-term...
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Keywords:
After-tax Income;
Consumer-driven Health Care;
Health Care Costs;
Health Insurance;
Income Inequality;
Tax Policy;
Health Care and Treatment;
Cost;
Insurance;
Income;
Equality and Inequality;
Taxation;
Policy;
United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Barak D. Richman. "Thinking Outside the Box (12): The Benefits of Increased Transparency in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance for the 180 Million Insured." Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series, No. 2020-4, December 2019.
- December 2016
- Article
Health Care Needs Real Competition
By: Leemore S. Dafny and Thomas H. Lee
The U.S. health care system is inefficient, unreliable, and crushingly expensive. There is no shortage of proposed solutions, but central to the best of them is the idea that health care needs more competition. In other sectors, competition improves quality and...
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Dafny, Leemore S., and Thomas H. Lee. "Health Care Needs Real Competition." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 12 (December 2016): 76–87.
- 28 Mar 2018
- News