Filter Results:
(1,202)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,202)
- People (5)
- News (334)
- Research (708)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (17)
- Faculty Publications (456)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,202)
- People (5)
- News (334)
- Research (708)
- Events (1)
- Multimedia (17)
- Faculty Publications (456)
- September 2013
- Article
Testimonials Do Not Convert Patients from Brand to Generic Medication
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and Gwendolyn Reynolds
Objectives: To assess whether the addition of a peer testimonial to an informational mailing increases conversion rates from brand name prescription medications to lower-cost therapeutic equivalents, and whether the testimonial's efficacy increases when... View Details
Keywords: Testimonial; Peer Information; Social Proximity; Communication; Generic Medication; Familiarity; Marketing Communications; Decision Choices and Conditions; Identity; Health Care and Treatment; Marketing Reference Programs; Power and Influence; Brands and Branding; Health Industry
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn Reynolds. "Testimonials Do Not Convert Patients from Brand to Generic Medication." American Journal of Managed Care 19, no. 9 (September 2013): e314–e316.
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Taking Care of Business
most importantly, affordable. Since then, the company’s offerings have expanded to include a monitor that uses mobile technology to record patient calls and response times by medical professionals; also in the works is a medication... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
patient can lead to better outcomes and less cost. Source: Data Visualization by Blair Storie-Johnson “Maybe that pre-surgical conversation costs an extra $100, in a physician’s or nurse’s time; but if you can save $5,000 in rehab, that’s... View Details
- 14 Jun 2021
- News
Why the Hottest Primary Care Startups Aren't Chasing Medicaid
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
care SEC would have many issues to work out. It would have to establish standard definitions for specific quality measurements. Risk-adjusters would need to develop ways to compare providers’ performance at widely varying practices... View Details
- Web
Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Measure Outcomes & Cost ... Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
Regina Herzlinger is not afraid to call them as she sees them. And what she sees looking at the American health care industry is a bunch of killers. Not only are hospitals, insurers, employers, Congress, and academics killing health care,... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- Video
Innovation and the Retailization of Health Care 2
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day... View Details
- November 2015
- Article
Influence of Experience and the Surgical Learning Curve on Long-term Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery
By: Bryan M. Burt, Andrew W. ElBardissi, Robert S. Huckman, Lawrence H. Cohn, Marisa W. Cevasco, James D. Rawn, Sary F. Aranki and John G. Byrne
OBJECTIVE: We hypothesized that increased post-graduate surgical experience correlates with improved operative efficiency and long-term survival in standard cardiac surgery procedures.
METHODS: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database,... View Details
METHODS: Utilizing a prospectively collected retrospective database,... View Details
Keywords: Service Delivery; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Experience and Expertise; Health Industry
Burt, Bryan M., Andrew W. ElBardissi, Robert S. Huckman, Lawrence H. Cohn, Marisa W. Cevasco, James D. Rawn, Sary F. Aranki, and John G. Byrne. "Influence of Experience and the Surgical Learning Curve on Long-term Patient Outcomes in Cardiac Surgery." Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 150, no. 5 (November 2015): 1061–1067.
- 2024
- Working Paper
Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Zirui Song. "Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-012, September 2024.
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
hospitals. For example, the law formalized the growing recognition that providers must work together to manage both the cost and quality of care rather than continue to battle with each other for payments based largely on the number of... View Details
- 04 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care
While some consider it President Obama's greatest accomplishment, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act also has been the target of constant scrutiny and scorn since it was signed into law last... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Health Care Delivery
- 14 Aug 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Improving Patient Outcomes: The Effects of Staff Participation and Collaboration in Healthcare Delivery
- 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 Bias in Health View Details
- Article
Financial Analysis of Pediatric Resident Physician Primary Care Longitudinal Outpatient Experience
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Carole H. Stipelman, Brad Poss, Laura Anne Stetson, Luca Boi, Michael Rogers, Caleb Puzey, Sri Koduri, Vivian S. Lee and Edward B. Clark
Objective
To determine whether residency training represents a net positive or negative cost to academic medical centers, we analyzed the cost of a residency program and clinical productivity of residents and faculty in an outpatient primary care practice with or... View Details
To determine whether residency training represents a net positive or negative cost to academic medical centers, we analyzed the cost of a residency program and clinical productivity of residents and faculty in an outpatient primary care practice with or... View Details
Kaplan, Robert S., Carole H. Stipelman, Brad Poss, Laura Anne Stetson, Luca Boi, Michael Rogers, Caleb Puzey, Sri Koduri, Vivian S. Lee, and Edward B. Clark. "Financial Analysis of Pediatric Resident Physician Primary Care Longitudinal Outpatient Experience." Academic Pediatrics 18, no. 7 (September–October 2018): 837–842.
- 3 Jun 2023
- Talk
Health Care Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 and How to Make Them Happen
The crush of patients created by COVID enabled the creation of sites for care outside the traditional hospital, such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy mirrored these changes by... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Health Industry; Insurance Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Health Care Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 and How to Make Them Happen." Harvard Business School Alumni Reunion, Boston, MA, June 3, 2023. (Link to cases described in this talk.)