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- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
avoidance on the part of physicians, a litigious society, and inadequate protection from it for physicians (Rowland Freeman), "defensive" medicine leading to unnecessary tests and treatments, an insurance system that is costly and... View Details
- 18 Apr 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Pooling on Throughput Time in Discretionary Work Settings: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay
- 30 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?
Patients and physicians increasingly turned to digital platforms, like patient portal messaging, when COVID-19 made contact risky, but a new study of how providers managed the messaging surge suggests an uncomfortable downside: What if... View Details
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
unbearable feeling of worthlessness. I am good at nothing, a parasite.” Union surveys found that two-thirds of respondents were stressed and half wanted to quit. Local physicians told the firm’s head of human resources that many employees... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
community hospital to establish Hoag Orthopedic Institute, a for-profit hospital and two ambulatory service centers. By controlling and integrating all aspects of the patients' medical treatment, the physicians deliver superior outcomes,... View Details
- 15 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care
the last 30 years. We want providers to look at their processes for activities, such as running an operating room, discharging patients, or conducting physician rounds, and figure out cost-effective ways to improve upon them,"... View Details
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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
about where to receive care and who should be providing it. They also should define the success of physicians and provider organizations. When there is effective multidisciplinary care, outcomes provide data for improving performance.... View Details
- August 2017 (Revised July 2018)
- Case
MannKind Corporation: Take a Deep Breath, This Time Afrezza Will Work
By: Elie Ofek and Amanda Dai
In June 2014, MannKind Corporation announced that after years of development and billions of dollars in expenses, the FDA had finally approved its drug, Afrezza. MannKind would thus be the only company with an inhalable insulin on the market. As an alternative to... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Adoption; Pharmaceutical Industry
Ofek, Elie, and Amanda Dai. "MannKind Corporation: Take a Deep Breath, This Time Afrezza Will Work." Harvard Business School Case 518-031, August 2017. (Revised July 2018.)
- February 2021
- Article
Assessment of Electronic Health Record Use Between U.S. and Non-U.S. Health Systems
By: A Jay Holmgren, Lance Downing, David W. Bates, Tait D. Shanafelt, Arnold Milstein, Christopher Sharp, David Cutler, Robert S. Huckman and Kevin A. Schulman
Importance: Understanding how the electronic health record (EHR) system changes clinician work, productivity, and well-being is critical. Little is known regarding global variation in patterns of use.
Objective: To provide insights into which EHR... View Details
Objective: To provide insights into which EHR... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Health Records; Health Care and Treatment; Online Technology; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry
Holmgren, A Jay, Lance Downing, David W. Bates, Tait D. Shanafelt, Arnold Milstein, Christopher Sharp, David Cutler, Robert S. Huckman, and Kevin A. Schulman. "Assessment of Electronic Health Record Use Between U.S. and Non-U.S. Health Systems." JAMA Internal Medicine 181, no. 2 (February 2021): 251–259.
- January 2020
- Article
Assessing the Safety of Electronic Health Records: A National Longitudinal Study of Medication-related Decision Support
By: A Jay Holmgren, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Melissa Danforth, David Classen and David Bates
Background Electronic health records (EHR) can improve safety via computerised physician order entry with clinical decision support, designed in part to alert providers and prevent potential adverse drug events at entry and before they reach the patient.... View Details
Keywords: Hospital; Electronic Health Records; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Safety; Performance; Quality; Performance Improvement
Holmgren, A Jay, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Melissa Danforth, David Classen, and David Bates. "Assessing the Safety of Electronic Health Records: A National Longitudinal Study of Medication-related Decision Support." BMJ Quality & Safety 29, no. 1 (January 2020): 52–59.
- 12 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks
Source: rawpixel Many jobs involve completing a series of sequential, independent, prearranged tasks. Physicians see patients; teachers grade papers; insurance agents process stacks of claims. In the interest of productivity, some... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
relaxing the ownership role of physicians in such sites. Some health insurers added technology as a major asset, and VCs and PEs invested heavily in these innovative businesses. Many of these innovations spread to other continents, such... View Details
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Impact Stories - Impact Stories
Impact Stories Impact Stories Play Health Minute: How Can Technology Improve 21st Century Health Care Professor Ariel Stern Play Health Minute: Can Physicians Maintain Trust When Delivering Bad News? Professor Leslie John Play Health... View Details
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Overview
ECONOMICS OF THE ADVERTISING AND MARKETING SERVICEC INDUSTRY
Professor Silk’s recent research has been focused on the economics of the advertising and marketing services industry. He has conducted econometric studies of the effects of scale and scope on the... View Details
- Article
National Trends in the Safety Performance of Electronic Health Record Systems From 2009 to 2018
By: David Classen, A Jay Holmgren, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Diane Seger, Melissa Danforth and David Bates
Importance Despite the broad adoption of electronic health record (EHR) systems across the continuum of care, safety problems persist.
Objective To measure the safety performance of operational EHRs in hospitals across the country during a 10-year period.
Design,... View Details
Keywords: Electronic Health Record Systems; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Performance; Safety; Measurement and Metrics; United States
Classen, David, A Jay Holmgren, Zoe Co, Lisa Newmark, Diane Seger, Melissa Danforth, and David Bates. "National Trends in the Safety Performance of Electronic Health Record Systems From 2009 to 2018." JAMA Network Open 3, no. 5 (May 2020).
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Student Research - Doctoral
underlying supply curve. This paper explores the effect of supply curve convexity on the... 2024 Article Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings Effects of a Real-Time Information-Based Intervention on Physician Prescribing Behavior... View Details
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Impact - Health Care
areas. Impact Stories Health Minute: How Can Technology Improve 21st Century Health Care Professor Ariel Stern Health Minute: Can Physicians Maintain Trust When Delivering Bad News? Professor Leslie John Health Minute: The Real Impact of... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
Do relationships between colleagues raise the bar? A new analysis of how physicians who know each other provide better patient care could impart wide-ranging lessons for the business world. Specialists who received referrals from primary... View Details
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Tests for Physicians and Their Leaders for the Decade Ahead by Thomas H. Lee, MD, MSc, Toby Cosgrove, MD In the years immediately ahead, physicians and their leaders must move to a new level of health care... View Details
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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
(IT) is needed. There have been major efforts to accelerate the adoption of IT in health care over the last decades, which have made substantial headway. The adoption of electronic health records by hospitals and physicians between 2004... View Details