Hospitals - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Nov 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Cohort Turnover and Operational Performance: The July Phenomenon in Teaching Hospitals

Keywords: by Hummy Song, Robert S. Huckman & Jason R. Barro; Health

27 Oct 2020
News

Hospital Merger Seeks to Create Regional Giant in the West

December 12, 2023
Article

Prices for Common Services at Quaternary vs Nonquaternary Hospitals

By: Brandon W. Yan, Maximilian J. Pany and Leemore S. Dafny

Using commercial health insurance claims data from 2017-2019, we assessed whether quaternary hospitals charged higher prices for common, unspecialized services also offered by nonquaternary hospitals. We found quaternary-hospital price premiums of 8.2 percent, on... View Details

Keywords: Price; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Markets; Health Industry

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22 May 2020
News

What Hospitals Overwhelmed by Covid-19 Can Learn From Startups

26 Jun 2020
Blog Post

(PPE)ople First: Bringing Critical Personal Protective Equipment to Boston Hospitals

local hospitals and clinics. Scaling Our Project Over the next few weeks, we worked together to fundraise $3.5 million and purchase over 1.9 million pieces of PPE. In true start-up fashion, we moved quickly and had to iron out some... View Details

June 2006
Article

Operational Failures and Interruptions in Hospital Nursing

By: A. L. Tucker and S. Spear

Keywords: Operations; Failure; Health; Health Industry

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04 Dec 2024
Podcast

Hospitality at work: Bridging opportunity and innovation

How do you foster inclusion, economic mobility, and a sense of purpose across a global organization with both franchise and direct employees? Laura Fuentes, Hilton CHRO, on supporting frontline workers and promoting from within in a traditionally high-turnover... View Details

22 Feb 2023
News

How Hospitals Could Avoid Future PPE Chaos

08 Jan 2022
News

Why Workers Are Fleeing the Hospitality Sector

December 2019
Supplement

Karin Vinik at South Lake Hospital (D)

By: Joseph L. Badaracco and Kim B. Clark

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2019
Article

Hospital Adoption of API-enabled Patient Data Access

By: A Jay Holmgren and Nate C. Apathy

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August 1998
Article

Critical Pathways at the Massachusetts General Hospital

By: Richard Bohmer

Keywords: Health; Health Industry; Massachusetts

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December 1986 (Revised July 1989)
Background Note

Note on the Hospital Information Systems Industry

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Information Technology; Health Care and Treatment

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February 1985
Background Note

Note on the Boston Area Teaching Hospitals

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Boston

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October 2021 (Revised February 2022)
Case

Hospital 57357: Aligning Performance Towards a Vision of a Cancer-Free Childhood

By: Susanna Gallani and Youssef Abdel Aal

The case follows the Children Cancer Hospital in Egypt, also known as Hospital 57357, as it goes through the roll-out of a new performance management system, which Dr. Sherif Abouel Naga, founder and CEO of the hospital, had championed. This was a critical juncture as... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Performance Management; Performance Incentives; Strategic Alignment; Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Alignment; Performance Evaluation; Mission and Purpose; Change Management; Health Industry; Egypt; Middle East

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18 Dec 2017
News

Hospital Giants Vie for Patients in Effort to Fend Off New Rivals

November 2020
Article

Barriers to Hospital Electronic Public Health Reporting and Implications for the COVID-19 Pandemic

By: A Jay Holmgren, Nate Apathy and Julia Adler-Milstein

We sought to identify barriers to hospital reporting of electronic surveillance data to local, state, and federal public health agencies and the impact on areas projected to be overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using 2018 American Hospital Association data, we... View Details

Keywords: Electronic Health Records; Public Health; Syndromic Surveillance; Pandemic; COVID-19; Health Pandemics

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