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- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
Mark Verdi, Jan Swartz, and Rob Swartz Jan and Rob Swartz and Mark Verdi (all MBA 1996) and Mark’s wife, Gina, have witnessed, firsthand, the negative effects of our nation’s disjointed approach toward the View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
drugs? How frequently do physicians prescribe advertised drugs when other drugs or treatments may be equally effective? We surveyed a national probability sample of 643 physicians practicing in a wide variety of specialties. Data were... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
iPhoto COVID-19 is having a devastating effect on the emotional, psychological, and social well-being (as well as the physical health) of people around the world. Risk factors for addiction, mental illness, and “deaths of despair” are... View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
to prove that a new medication’s benefits merit a higher price if cheaper, similar drugs are available. The process rewards companies whose drugs are more novel or help patients more, while forcing manufacturers of equally or less View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
disease William A. Sahlman: New treatment options for the next pandemic The crisis reveals the remarkable progress over the past 20 years in health science. There are hundreds of companies, big and small, working on better tests, better... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
How Deep Brain Stimulation Could Change Medicine
tone quality, it was nothing short of a nightmare. After exhausting other treatment options, Frisch chose a radical alternative: having tiny, needle-like electrodes placed inside his brain. Those electrodes are part of a device called... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
is that thing,” Verdi says. “It’s one of the top three causes of our age,” adds Swartz. Both the Verdi and Swartz families have witnessed, firsthand, the negative effects of our nation’s disjointed treatment... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Duncan M. ("Greg") Murray (MBA 1964)
applications, particularly in the food industry. Although a stroke in 1992 left Murray with extensive left-side paralysis, he can often be found mending fence on his farm. He is excited to be undertaking an ozone-based treatment for... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
create safer and more effective treatments and, of course, reap profits—industry executives, like hopeful patients, still restlessly wait for relief. Given its scientific potential, said Pisano, biotech... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Collaborative Cures
Business Administration “When I looked at the health care system through a systems engineering lens, I could see it as a network of multiple parts that needed to be optimized and restraints that had to be removed. Everyone wants the best View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
with the capacity and courage to effect these changes? Another message, according to Herzlinger, was about the role of payment models on cost, quality, and access to care and the need to ensure that "access" does not require "affluence."... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
documentation, litigation defense, and regulatory compliance. These excessive documentation requirements also strain the patient-physician relationship, reducing the time patients spend with their doctors and hampering effective... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Making a Statement
treatment centers in the country. Paul’s experience led him to make a gift during his 25th Reunion to endow a fund to benefit the School’s Health Care Initiative. Given the fund’s initial success, he recently made a significant additional... View Details
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
making decisions that could advance treatment options for patients with rare cancers. Neither of the Linns worked in science or medicine. A few years earlier, rare cancers had not even been on their radar. Now it was possible their... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
Reviving Entrepreneurship
New enterprises don't exist in a vacuum: They rise or fall depending on myriad contextual factors, all of them interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of... View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Other Presentation
The Fearless ICU
By: Amy C. Edmondson
The last 24 months have pushed ICU teams around the world to their limits. As we move forward, we need to heal and rebuild our critical care teams. Healthcare more than ever will require ICU teams to perform at the highest levels and to continuously innovate to deliver... View Details
Keywords: Psychological Safety; Teams; Critical Care; Health Care and Treatment; Groups and Teams; Performance Effectiveness
"The Fearless ICU." Critical Matters (podcast), Sound Physicians, February 24, 2022.
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
budget constraints, EDs must better understand bottlenecks and their effect on process flow to improve process efficiency. The primary objective of this study was to identify bottlenecks in obtaining a head CT and investigate patient... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
medical system, however, new science has to clear a high hurdle before it has an impact on practice. This caution is sensible in some arenas, but personalized medicine results in safer and more effective therapy choices, not higher risk.... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
therapies has become a reality, as have immunotherapies that induce or suppress a body’s immune response to treat disease. Yet, this relatively swift progress has not been fast enough for millions of other patients who still lack View Details