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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
University of California Los Angeles Medical Center University of California San Francisco Medical Center UPMC University of Rochester Medical Center University of Utah Health... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Student turns family health crisis into online solution
When Shana Hoffman (MBA 2014) and her family tried to navigate the world of health care in the US to help Hoffman’s father with his medical issues, the electrical systems engineer looked at the problem from... View Details
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Maya Babu
realize that beyond the medical issues, there's a need for leaders who can build morale, inspire employees, negotiate with contractors—just as there is in business. To be effective in the public sector, long-term, I needed a background in... View Details
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A Jay Holmgren
A Jay Holmgren (he/him) hadn’t yet developed a strong interest in health policy when he graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in History in 2011. But when his father was diagnosed with cancer in 2014, A Jay found himself struggling to manage a mountain of... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
The ills of the U.S. healthcare system are well chronicled—soaring costs, low customer satisfaction, increasing problems with quality, and restricted coverage lead the list. But do we really understand the underlying issues well enough to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
treatments and toward value for patients; he defined “value” as “health outcomes per dollar spent.” Instead of the current system of disjointed, episodic medical interventions, Porter argued for an... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, which are moving toward results measurement and integrated practice unit structures. Reforming the U.S. system does not require a top down,... View Details
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Black patients and their doctors may be more open to new medications if drug trials included more Black people, new research shows. Currently, Black Americans represent just 5 percent of drug trial participants. Nearly three-quarters of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
sync. No one is thinking about the system as a whole—and that’s the opportunity.” —Shana Hoffman (MBA 2014), COO, Senior VP, Tri-State/Mid-Atlantic Region, Beacon Health Options Photo courtesy of Lily Fu Photo courtesy of Lily Fu “The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
referring physicians. We think that health plans are also the logical place in the system at which to aggregate medical records. Right now, the medical record resides with each... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
gravely ill, HBS professor Clayton Christensen finds its prognosis encouraging. These symptoms, he says, merely reflect inefficient delivery systems that market forces have already begun to reshape. Christensen's optimistic outlook stems... View Details
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Zihan Lin
at CIRTEC Medical Systems confirmed his "innate feeling that my goal was not an engineering goal: I wanted to start my own company." HBS impressed Zi with its health-care-industry depth. In... View Details
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THE VALUE OF THE PHYSICIAN SHADOW PROGRAM: Witnessing The Front Lines of Care Delivery - Blog: Health Supplement
Practitioners Topics Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care Innovation Health Care Investment Health Care at HBS Insurance/payor Medical... View Details
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Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog
of chronic disease, and understanding the limits of medical intervention. Module 2— Optimizing Care : This module will consider how health care systems can organize to deliver value by providing health more... View Details
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Andrew Dervan
Like many of his colleagues, Andrew Dervan entered medical school to fulfill a passion. And like many of them, Andrew says, "I'm frustrated with the system. One out of seven dollars in the US is spent on health care. It's just... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
BRAILER: Aiming to give every American an electronic health-care record by 2014. American health-care providers may use the best technology in the world, but when it comes to patient records, the system is an inefficient maze responsible... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
employees, rapidly rising health-care costs, and the likely loss of existing protection against lawsuits for pain and suffering from medical events. She then disclosed the results of a 1999 KPMG survey of CEOs and consumers about... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
go for the money. In your first job, you're naive and will make a lot of mistakes. You need someone who will protect you, push you, and support you." CURRENT READING On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan For thirty years, Hansjörg Wyss has led Synthes, a global View Details
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Tony Perez
As a candidate in the joint MD/MBA program, Tony Perez has a very specific focus: healthcare. "I'm interested in practicing medicine and in administration — running a large medical center," Tony says. "HBS helps me... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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perseverance, and teamwork. —Michael Brown (MBA 1970) via LinkedIn Curing Health Care Re: How can our health care system be fixed? This is all very well and good, but technical solutions will only work around the edges until two main... View Details
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