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2023
Article

Comparison of COVID-19 Hospitalization Costs across Care Pathways: A Patient-level Time-driven Activity-based Costing Analysis in a Brazilian Hospital

By: Ricardo Bertoglio Cardoso, Miriam Allein Zago Marcolino, Milena Soriano Marcolino, Camila Felix Fortis, Leila Beltrami Moreira, Ana Paula Coutinho, Nadine Oliveira Clausell, Junaid Nabi, Robert S. Kaplan, Ana Paula Beck da Silva Etges and Carisi Anne Polanczyk

The COVID-19 pandemic raised awareness of the need to better understand where and how patient-level costs are incurred in health care organizations. This study used time-driven activity-based costing to estimate COVID-19 patient-level hospital costs in a Brazilian... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Health Industry; Brazil

February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
Case

Marvin: A Personalized Telehealth Approach to Mental Health

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Eshani Sharma, Andrew Nguyen, Thomas Arsenault, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Julia Kelley

More than one third of Americans were said to suffer some type of behavioral health ailment at some point in their lifetime, with many people requiring chronic therapy or intervention. Despite significant clinical needs, access to reliable treatment has been difficult... View Details

Keywords: Mental Health; Applications; Startup Management; Telehealth; Health Care Entrepreneurship; Health ＆ Wellness; Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Customization and Personalization; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Applications and Software

Educators

2 Apr 2009
Other Presentation

Redefining Health Care Delivery: Implications for Global Health

This presentation draws on Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006, and ―How Physicians Can Change the Future of Health Care, Journal of the American... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; United States

20 Feb 2018
News

Electronic Health Records Don’t Reduce Administrative Costs

20 Jun 2011
Other Presentation

Value-Based Health Care Delivery Welcome and Introduction

This presentation draws on Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (with Elizabeth O. Teisberg), Harvard Business School Press, May 2006; ―A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System, New England Journal of Medicine, June... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; England

11 Oct 2012
Other Presentation

Introduction to Value Based Health Care Delivery

This presentation draws on Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (with Elizabeth O. Teisberg), Harvard Business School Press, May 2006; "A Strategy for Health Care Reform—Toward a Value-Based System," New England Journal of... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; United States

01 Jan 2017
News

Improving Health Care Delivery

Jeffrey and Mary Ellen Jay (both MBA 1987) In the mid-1980s, Jeffrey Jay (MBA 1987) had set his sights on academic medicine, having earned his MD from Boston University. A dramatically changing health care... View Details

TeachingInterests

Managing Health Care Delivery - Executive Education

By: Robert S. Huckman

While delivering patient care has always been a primary goal of health care organizations, financial outcomes have long been the metric by which success is measured. Increasingly, however, health care leaders are being held accountable for... View Details

13 Oct 2006
Other Presentation

Value-Based Competition in Health Care

This presentation draws on a forthcoming book with Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press). Earlier publications about the work include the Harvard Business Review article... View Details

Keywords: Health; United States

25 Oct 2015
News

Measuring and Communicating Health Care Value with Charts

02 Nov 2016
News

How Health Care Hurts Your Paycheck

Program

Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual

insights and capabilities, you will return to your organization prepared to implement and oversee a value-based health care approach that lowers costs and improves outcomes.... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

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... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

05 Jul 2010
News

Bill George On The Ill Health Of Health Care

02 Mar 2011
News

A Disruptive Solution for Health Care

September 2011 (Revised August 2014)
Background Note

Note on Bundled Payment in Health Care

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Charles C. Huang

The note explains how bundled health care payment differs from fee-for-service payment, provides examples of the difference between the two, describes early innovators in bundling and their results, provides guidance on how to make it happen, and elucidates the legal... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Price; Cost Management; Health Industry

Educators

October 2005 (Revised June 2007)
Case

Apollo Hospitals--First-World Health Care at Emerging-Market Prices

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Tarun Khanna and Carin-Isabel Knoop

The Apollo Hospitals Group, one of Asia's premier health care organizations, had come to rival the best health care organizations on the globe. Apollo offered advanced medical procedures, such as cardiac surgery using the beating heart technique, at very high levels of... View Details

Keywords: Vertical Integration; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Care and Treatment; Global Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Health Industry; Thailand; United States; India

Educators