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Two Hundred Years of Health and Medical Care

Using two hundred years of national and Massachusetts data on medical care and health, we examine how central medical care is to life expectancy gains. While common theories about medical care cost growth stress growing demand, our analysis highlights the importance of... View Details

31 Jan 2014
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How to really measure the value in health care

July 1998
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Arbor Health Care Company TN

By: Myra M. Hart and Stephanie Dodson

Teaching Note for (9-897-132). View Details

Keywords: Health Industry

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April 2014 (Revised March 2018)
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Texas Children's Hospital: Congenital Heart Disease Care

By: Michael E. Porter, Justin M. Bachmann and Zachary C. Landman

In 2014, Dr. Charles D. Fraser Jr., Surgeon-in-Chief of Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, was contemplating the future direction of the congenital heart disease program. The nation's largest pediatric hospital, Texas Children's was ranked by U.S. News & World... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Congenital Heart Disease; Integrated Practice Units; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics; Performance Improvement; Health Industry; United States; Texas

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Preparing Hospitals for the Next Pandemic

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman

The COVID-19 epidemic response has shown that the U.S. is blessed with heroic physicians and other health care providers, researchers, and facilities. But it has also revealed a health care system that was woefully unprepared for the surge of pandemic patients. In the... View Details

Keywords: Hospital; Hospital Management; Hospitals—administration; Health Care; Health Care Industry; Health Care Investment; Health Care Operations; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Operations; Performance Improvement; Investment; Health Industry; United States

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Health Care Health Care February 2015 Supplement The Affordable Care Act (A): Legislative Strategy in the House of... View Details

13 Mar 2014
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Democratizing Health Care Innovation with MOOCs

06 Feb 2018
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What Could Amazon’s Approach to Health Care Look Like?

20 May 2008
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Health Care and History's Hand

13 Jan 2010
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Doubts about health care reform

10 Mar 2015

Health Care Sector at HBS Webinar

This webinar will provide an overview of the resources available at HBS to students coming from (or who are interested in pursuing a career in) health care. A member of our Career and Professional Development Office will review View Details