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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
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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

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

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

Student-Profile

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

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

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

affordable, changing the way we consumers pay for the services doesn't fix anything. What we need is a system of new value networks that will disrupt the old business models in this industry. We need a new approach not just to insurance... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

12 Dec 2022
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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

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health

01 Sep 2006
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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

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

Profile

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

01 Mar 2006
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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

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2008
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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

Keywords: HIV/AIDS; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

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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 Dec 2018
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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 2010
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Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

Medical Devices, the regional finalists were: Boston: iSpecimen (Mike Pierce, MBA ’01, interim COO) is building a network that connects clinical laboratories and hospital electronic medical record View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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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

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

she had a different type of leukemia. They ran more tests but saw no sign of one. The hospital was affiliated with the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science, which had partnered with IBM Watson, a cloud-based... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

31 May 2017
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Father Agribusiness

Agribusiness, he explains, “..[i]s not just agriculture and business, it’s people from the medical school and government and the school for public health all working together.” For Goldberg, observing those connections in the context of... 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

Keywords: by Staff; Health

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Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement