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- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
needed MICU beds, forcing the patients' physicians to search for available beds on Meldon's other intensive care units. The Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) and the Thoracic Surgery Intensive Care Unit (TSICU) had available beds, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
wholesalers, and distributors. But we should also include clinical physicians and independent research scientists, who transact through knowledge markets. And we must also add shareholders and lenders, who participate through financial... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
policy, not only would Medicare not cover the medication, but patients could no longer pay for it out of pocket. Instead, the cost had to be absorbed by the physician or surgery center. Imprimis now had to figure out a way to deal with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
strong global presence and experience, did not effectively address critical barriers to adoption. The company now planned to overhaul Afrezza’s entire marketing strategy. This included rethinking which patients and physicians to target,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
care costs. Physicians often failed to engage patients in preventative care, which many believed would help combat the rising costs of treating chronic conditions. Diabetes and hypertension, in particular, afflicted many developed nations... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
the (A) case by revisiting the hospital to find out what happened as a result of the ambitious change program launched over eight years earlier. It elaborates the ways in which Children's COO Julie Morath seeks to continue to improve hospital operations by involving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
out its Genetics Diagnostic Lab into a fully commercial entity. Claritas offered over 100 genomic tests to detect a range of conditions, including autism and intellectual disabilities, and was developing new tests that provided clearer and more relevant information for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
adequate because they possess the Invariant Proportion of Substitution (IPS) property, which imposes counter-intuitive restrictions on individual choice behavior. Indeed our empirical application to prescription writing choices of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
declares. "The fact of the matter is, advances in medical technology now make it possible for nurse practitioners to handle many cases with considerable expertise and at considerably less expense. Similarly, family physicians can now... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52341 February 20, 2018 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
proprietary technology, athenaNet, to a new business, athenaHealth, that would help physicians manage their practice, billing, and revenue cycles and maintain electronic patient records more efficiently and cost effectively using the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
of integrity has to do it. In the same way that medical ethics do not compel a physician to do something that violates his or her own personal ethics, corporate law does not require directors to check their sense of right and wrong... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
order. This paper considers the operational implications of “discretionary task ordering,” defined as the task sequence resulting from an individual’s ability to select which task to complete next from a work queue. Using data from more than 2.4 million radiological... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
reactor" in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? A: By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients' needs. Today's doctors work in a... View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
well subscribed program. We're now looking into the possibility of launching an executive education program for physicians, physician leaders of health care providers. Q: Do the faculty members in the initiative have backgrounds or... View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
employers cost relief, consumers and physicians will be empowered to make the system work the way it should. Return to Imperial Trade? John Holt & Co (Liverpool) Ltd. as a Contemporary Free-standing Company, 1945-2006 Author:Stephanie... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
dynamics include the founding team in an entrepreneurial venture, a research group comprising physicians and scientists, a financial services team evaluating a possible deal, a governing board for a nonprofit organization, and a corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
shows. We need to remember to set work aside and make time to connect in meaningful ways with family and friends, says Whillans, whose partner’s stressful work as an emergency room physician is a daily reminder to set her priorities... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
PeopleImages In 2012, federal court jurors listened as Ani Chopourian described the sexual harassment she endured as a cardiac surgery physician assistant at a Sacramento hospital. One surgeon greeted her each morning with “I’m horny” and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
high-volume U.S. hospitals for delivering a primary total knee arthroplasty without major complicating conditions. Hospital and physician personnel costs were calculated using time-driven activity-based costing. Consumable supply costs,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne