patient care - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2008
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Mara Aspinall

believe most patients are more knowledgeable about their own health care than they are given credit for. The popular press has done a good job of covering advances in genetic research, and consumers are... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Dec 2022
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Elevator Pitch: Common Knowledge

Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Matthew Ross (MBA 2022) Cofounder and CEO, Trove Health 2022–2023 Blavatnik Fellow Concept: Trove is building the world’s largest longitudinal database of patients and their health... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneurship; healthcare; data; technology; Blavatnik Fellowship

01 Sep 2010
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RX for Change

discussions that took place back in May at Emory University Hospital Midtown will affect more than the bottom line. It will impact the quality of care delivered to thousands of people. Midtown is a 511-bed facility serving over 150,000... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

28 May 2019
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Cure All

interactions between health care providers and payers, as well as antitrust enforcement. Here, they discuss what it would take to improve the provision of care. Say you’re settling into your seat for a short-haul flight, and your seatmate... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2020
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Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

Kyruus, a Boston-based firm he cofounded that helps health care systems to manage their provider data and make it easier to connect patients with the right care—steps that ultimately benefit both View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2009
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Faculty Books

Designing Care: Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care by Richard M.J. Bohmer (Harvard Business Press) In this book, Senior Lecturer Bohmer, a medical doctor, explains that health-care professionals provide two different types... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Feb 1997
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Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution

transactions. Now they're requiring that the health-care system also provide convenience and information. Patients can't be patient anymore. What other market forces are at work? Major organizational... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry

hospitals, and patients were hurting athenahealth’s bottom line. Bush shifted the company’s focus from clinical care to Internet billing and information processing, and athenahealth now provides cloud-based... View Details

27 Jul 2017
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Seeing a Way Forward

with staff to create the BooWow Factor, measuring the “wows” and “boos” generated through follow-up phone calls to a sampling of patients who visit a salauno clinic. Management finds that such direct feedback is an invaluable tool in... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jun 2017
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Starting Lineup: Values Proposition

2014); Founded 2012 Eight out of ten patients discharged from the hospital need additional care. CarePort’s technology assists with planning and managing this post-acute care. The winner of the 2012 HBS New Venture Competition in the... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Founding a bone marrow donor bank that saves thousands of lives

Peter Harf (MBA 1974) transformed Joh. A. Benckiser SE, a small, privately held German company into a global powerhouse, but it’s his cofounding of Delete Blood Cancer DKMS that he considers his most important role. Since 1991, the nonprofit has helped more than 40,000... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

CHRISTENSEN: “By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients’ needs.” An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization of technological and business... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

01 Feb 2001
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The Doctor Is In

in medicine and patient care that are on the way, we're having no trouble attracting talented young people to the profession." As for the health-care system's ills, Slavin is cautious about private-sector... View Details

Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance

07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

provide a convenient and confidential channel for patients to share feedback on such things as the quality of care they received and the cleanliness of the facility they visited, as well as any incidences of... View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Feb 2021
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Building Hope

prescribed antidepressants, which can take weeks to have an effect, ketamine’s impact is almost immediate. It also seems to have particular potential as a counter to suicidal ideation. “That’s the Western medicine approach that people need,” Zapolin says. In a clinical... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Morrell

01 Sep 2004
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A Market-Based Prescription

efficiency and effectiveness lie. The 20 percent have chronic diseases or disabilities, such as bad backs, heart disease, AIDS, diabetes, or asthma. These patients need the care of many different... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

15 Jan 2019
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Working to Improve the End of Life

educate the public and medical professionals about end-of-life issues, like advance directives, palliative care, and hospice. We provide individual counseling to patients who are dying and their families, and advocate to get the laws... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Mar 2005
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Faculty Research Online

directly to consumers. Do physicians take notice? Professor Emeritus Alvin Silk and Harvard’s Joel Weissman discuss a recent study. The Changing Roles of Doctors and Patients Richard Bohmer, a physician as well as an HBS assistant... View Details