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- October 2009
- Teaching Note
Global Health Partner: Obesity Care
By: Michael E. Porter, Zayed Muhammed Yasin and Jennifer F Baron
Teaching Note for [709494]. View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
performing costly medical procedures. And that’s a problem, argues Senior Fellow Robert S. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. “It becomes obvious that you can make the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
makes it necessary to reform care delivery organizations and processes,” says Richard Bohmer (above). “Our current systems date back to the early 20th century.” At Emory, Dr. Bryce Gartland, medical director... 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
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human, a groundbreaking report that pushed the issue of medical errors into the public spotlight. That we all make mistakes was certainly nothing new: Operational failures occur... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
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
- 31 May 2017
- News
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
- 04 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care
millions of middle-class Americans to receive Medicaid. It's also expected that the creation of so-called Obamacare will be a front-and-center issue debated in the 2012 presidential election. This growing awareness that our current system... View Details
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC About the Institute About the Institute Contact Us Faculty & Staff Institute Associates Ludcke FAQs Institute Associates Institute Associates Kevin J. Bozic, Senior Institute Associate Dr. Kevin Bozic is the inaugural Chair of Surgery and Perioperative Care at... View Details
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
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
- 2012
- Working Paper
The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange
By: Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees and Alvin E. Roth
It has been previously shown that for sufficiently large pools of patient-donor pairs, (almost) efficient kidney exchange can be achieved by using at most 3-way cycles, i.e., by using cycles among no more than 3 patient-donor pairs. However, as kidney exchange has... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Complexity; Performance Efficiency; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
Ashlagi, Itai, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18202, July 2012.
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
cannot get out of health care, no matter what kind of health insurance system is put in place. They bear the cost of poor health in the form of sick days, absenteeism, reduced productivity at work, and early retirements of skilled... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
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
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Personal crises inform a life’s work
director from 1990 through its closure in 2004, and an internationally recognized advocate. “Our efforts started a movement that vastly escalated breast cancer research funding and gave patients and survivors a permanent voice in medical... View Details
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
encountering. Drawn from the health-care industry, the research is based on a sample of 69 randomly selected hospitals, 20 of which participated in a three-part cycle of process improvement activities. Focusing on one area of the hospital at a time, the hospital's top... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Feedback
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
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
insight into products and a business. This is what the health care industry was lacking, she realized: a system designed from the patient’s point of view. It would be better for patients and medical staff,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
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News Coverage - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Involved Videos Books News Coverage VBHCD in the News Finding Value in the Cost of BPH Care MEDPAGE TODAY Charles Bankhead (March 2015) Fast-Track Process Cuts Time in PACU and Saves Money ANESTHESIOLOGY NEWS Shannon Firth (September 2014) The Science of Improvement... View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
medical care, a financial burden that forces some consumers to skip doses or forgo treatment. The US isn’t Germany While Germany's approach offers a relevant policy example, the country's health system... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
state after an outbreak of illness. Approved the first generic versions of Coreg, a widely used medication for high blood pressure and chronic heart failure. Proposed new standards for formulating, testing, and labeling sunscreen drug... View Details