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- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
lower-cost venues of care more capable that health care becomes affordable, not by expecting large hospitals to charge less. Q: Could you give an example of a technological innovation that you think will... View Details
- 02 Jul 2020
- News
How to Make Remote Monitoring Tech Part of Everyday Health Care
- November 25, 2015
- Article
Developing Bundled Reimbursement for Cancer Care
By: Thomas Feeley, Tracy E. Spinks and Alexis Guzman
This case study describes the development of a bundled reimbursement pilot for head and neck cancer patients treated at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The study describes the steps involved and the challenges to new alternative payment models in... View Details
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Research - Health Care
surge of patients who overwhelmed available health care resources. An overlooked resource deserves more attention: the availability of intensive care unit (ICU)... May 2024... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
Your patient health care data is most likely scattered throughout the medical universe, in everything from notes scribbled by various doctors to test results resting in far-flung computer systems. So when... View Details
- 2009
- Book
Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care
By: Richard Bohmer
Today's health-care providers face growing criticism - from policy makers and patients alike. As costs continue to spiral upward and concerns about quality of care escalate, the debate has focused on how to finance health care. Yet funding solutions can't... View Details
- Fast Answer
Surgical Procedures: by selected patient characteristics and procedure categories
Where to find statistics on surgical procedures by patient characteristics, and by procedure categories? You may begin with: Incidence & Prevalence Database covers diagnoses and procedures from US and European countries.... View Details
- 05 Jul 2012
- News
What Now? Health Care After the Supreme Court's Decision
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Offering a breath of life for critically ill patients
Patients suffering from diseases such as inoperable tracheal cancer, or those born without a trachea, have been granted a second chance. As biotechnology and surgical expertise progress, Green foresees a future without waiting lists for... View Details
- April 2003
- Module Note
Design and Management of Health Care Delivery Processes, The
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer
Discusses the design and management of clinical processes in health care. Presents a framing of the clinical process as a problem-solving process that fundamentally involves learning along two dimensions and at least two levels. The two dimensions are: 1) learning in... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- News
What Will U.S. Health Care Look Like After the Pandemic?
- 14 Nov 2019
- Video
Health Minute: How Can Technology Improve 21st Century Health Care
Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care
Today's health-care providers face growing criticism - from policy makers and patients alike. As costs continue to... View Details
- 18 Dec 2017
- News
Hospital Giants Vie for Patients in Effort to Fend Off New Rivals
- June 2017
- Article
A Systematic Approach to Discussing Active Surveillance with Patients with Low-risk Prostate Cancer
By: Behfar Ehdaie, Melissa Assel, Nicole Benfante, Deepak Malhotra and Andrew Vickers
A systematic approach to counseling—using appropriate framing techniques derived from principles studied by negotiation scholars—can be taught to physicians in a one-hour lecture. We found evidence that even this minimal intervention can decrease overtreatment of... View Details
- Article
How to End the Plasma Shortage for Coronavirus Patients
Those who have recovered from the virus will donate more blood if given the right incentives. View Details
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
taking care of ill patients and how we manage that act, how you design the processes that execute on that goal, and how you design the organizations that support those processes." I think Harvard and... View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
information about patients is collected and tracked over time. These latter areas are where I see the questions of quality improvement, cost containment, and value creation ultimately being decided. That said, I see a government-run... View Details
- September 2003 (Revised January 2005)
- Case
Bridges to Excellence: Bringing Quality Health Care to Life
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Ingrid Marie Nembhard and Robert Galvin
General Electric launched Bridges to Excellence Diabetes Care Link, a program through which enrolled physicians receive bonuses of up to 10% of their salary for delivering quality care to diabetic patients covered by a participating employer or health plan. A day... View Details