Health Care Regulation - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation

Defensive medicine spurs innovation They found, ultimately—and perhaps counterintuitively—that far from being an inhibitor to innovation, the practice of defensive medicine might have actually encouraged it. Legal liability pressure in View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies

11 Dec 2014
News

Revolutionizing digital medical records

coordinated, and lower-cost care. Bushkin expects MedKaz to revolutionize health care, bringing about changes in care quality and facilitating changes in the way care is... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

Daniel Vasella

the test as he methodically refashioned the two old-line chemical companies with disparate corporate cultures into a single entity focused on health care and powered by an innovative approach to R&D. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; multinational pharmaceutical company; prescription drugs; vaccines; Medicare; generics business; Health, Social Assistance

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Policymakers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Employers Suppliers Policymakers Policymakers Policymakers Policymakers play a key role in the transition to a value-based health care delivery system. Many older laws and View Details

07 Sep 2021
News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

reach all of the 50 million patients who use the government primary care system in Tanzania. He also sees opportunity in other countries in the region such as Kenya, Uganda, and Nigeria, as well as in working with private View Details

Keywords: April White

18 Jul 2024
News

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

"brave new world" had actually wanted governments to come in and regulate the market that technology had created. For about a year after the book's publication, I gave speeches about it. And inevitably, someone would ask what... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Health; Health; Health

01 Mar 2006
News

One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan

have died.” Chan, who hails from the People’s Republic of China, obtained her medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. In 1994, she was named Director of Health for Hong Kong, where she began her public-health... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

pharmaceutical companies. Avon bought health care companies and nursing homes. It turned out, however, that beauty and health had diverged too much from their common origin in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

population is increasing faster than any other nation in history, while its birthrate is shrinking. That double whammy is reducing both the workforce to care for the elderly and the tax base to support its universal View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

30 May 2024
News

Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears

change the design of decision-making environments to influence the decisions of customers and employees. In recent work, he has examined participation in retirement savings plans, household investment decisions, and health View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

March 2006 (Revised June 2010)
Teaching Note

Virginia Mason Medical Center and Virginia Mason Medical Center (Abridged) (TN)

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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July 2002
Article

The Effect of Decreasing Length of Stay on Discharge Destination and Readmission after Coronary Bypass Operation

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, John Newell and David F. Torchiana

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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Case

Salem Hospital

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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18 Feb 2019
News

Tracing Ridhi Tariyal's Startup Journey

Keywords: Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

02 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS

number of projects for hospital systems and pharmacies, then, inspired by the opportunity to explore health in a larger context, joined Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. An international organization affiliated with WHO and UNICEF, Gavi... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

18 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows

Traverso’s lab at MIT and interventional radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. Steve is an internal medicine clinician at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an engineer with expertise in immune modulation and biomaterials, and an entrepreneur passionate about... View Details

18 Nov 2021
News

Strength in Numbers

American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care... View Details

Keywords: April White