Smart Watches In Health Care - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2017 (Revised March 2021)
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Fitbit

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Christine Snively and Sarah Mehta

In 2019, Fitbit lost its leadership in the wearable sensor market to Apple and to cheaper alternatives.
Why did it lose its market position?
How will the proposed acquisition affect it and Google? View Details

Keywords: Wearable Sensors; Smart Watches In Health Care; Google Acquisition; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Acquisition

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Educators

Purchase

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

The occasion? The company, a leading supplier of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, was expanding. In a big... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

Web

Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care

Impact Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences Gaining Ground on ALS Re: Rob Blum (MBA 1991) Health Minute: How Can Technology Improve 21st Century Health View Details

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

experts in the health care field, to provide their views on various facets of one of this country's most important and complex problems. Bill George Professor of Management... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

02 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Jun 2011
News

Racial Bias Pervades Health Care

Distinguished Professor of Medical Education and professor of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School and was the first African American department chief at Harvard’s teaching hospitals. In his new book, Seeing Patients: Unconscious... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Health, Social Assistance

17 Jan 2023
In Practice

8 Trends to Watch in 2023

As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

Web

Building Entrepreneurial Organizations - Health Care

Impact Building Entrepreneurial Organizations Health Minute: How Entrepreneurs are Reducing Costs & Improving Outcomes More “Entrepreneurship” stories Faculty Focus Innovating In View Details

07 Apr 2020
News

What Will U.S. Health Care Look Like After the Pandemic?

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

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

Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Health

27 Nov 2017
News

Payment Reform Is a Play We’re All Watching

Article

Regulatory, Legal, and Market Aspects of Smart Wearables for Cardiac Monitoring

By: Jan Benedikt Brönneke, Jennifer Müller, Konstantinos Mouratis, Julia Hagen and Ariel Dora Stern

In the area of cardiac monitoring, the use of digitally driven technologies is on the rise. While the development of medical products is advancing rapidly, allowing for new use-cases in cardiac monitoring and other areas, regulatory and legal requirements that govern... View Details

Keywords: Wearables; Regulatory Changes; Medical Technology; Medical Devices; Market Access; Market Entry and Exit; Information Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States; Germany; Belgium

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Read Now

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

Editor's note. In the United States, a primary provider of health care is through employers. "Every corporation is a player in public... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

01 Mar 2024
News

INK: Taking Care

emotional. On the one hand, caregivers may feel joy and pleasure in feeling needed, in knowing they are helping someone they care about deeply. On the other hand, however,... View Details

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

15 Sep 2020
News

Fitbit Atrial Fibrillation Approval Revs Up Competition With Apple Watch

12 May 2020
News

Coronavirus and the future of the workplace: 8 trends to watch

Web

Doubling Down on Women’s Health Innovation and Leveraging the Private Sector in a Post-Roe v. Wade Era - Blog: Health Supplement

Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS... View Details

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

encouraged and instructed teens how to safely dispose of unused prescription medications in their homes. “Several thousand teens participated online or watched replays,” Langford says. SUD treatment... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

01 Dec 2020
News

Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

occurred in 2020. “COVID-19 is a dreadful pandemic,” she says in the following discussion, “but it has turned everything upside down in the View Details

Keywords: April White

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