Acute Care Hospitals - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jan 2020
Op-Ed

Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

for All published by the Harvard Business Review. [Image: Hispanolistic] Related Reading Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete Making Health Insurance That Consumers Actually Like What... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace; Health; Public Administration

05 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

In health care this is not the case, in part because of the way medicine has traditionally been structured and organized. Many hospitals, for example, see themselves in the "hospital" business or the "health View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

charity care to uninsured patients. "It's a Robin Hood story," Heese says. "These hospitals overbill the insured patients to generate money to pay for the uninsured." (Heese's research... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

idea that patients can and should become educated about their disease and be proactive in taking care of their health. According to Beaulieu and her co-authors, disease management is focused on prevention and control, not View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

23 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

patients finds the reality is much more complicated when it comes to languishing hospital bills. Canceling overdue medical debt on average does little or nothing to improve credit access, existing bill payment rates, or even mental... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

Most frequently involved were the emergency department, medical/surgical, operating room, and post-anesthesia care units, but some hospitals also included labs, the pharmacy, or medical records. The senior... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

safety measures at its facilities, launched online resource centers for different populations affected by COVID-19 such as frontline workers, ramped up telemental health care, and created training programs to help hospitals and... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

market—they must demonstrate to an independent panel from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) that a new product works better than existing options for an identifiable group of patients. The rule doesn’t apply... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

09 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

hospitals, and physicians to become more accountable for patient outcomes and total costs. The case describes new forms of partnerships for therapy optimization, management of acute care episodes, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid

to pay for a consumer-driven option of a traditional Medicaid hospital insurance, along with a doctor of their choice; a managed care policy, with its deductibles and copayment; or a network group of local... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

whereas South Korea has 216 cases per million. "South Korea created a vast number of testing sites, which included not only big hospitals but local clinics and public health care facilities." What South... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

told the story of patient advocate Jackie Gruzenski, who faced an all-too-common experience when her husband was hospitalized for a cerebral bleed in 2009. Gruzenski was only allowed to see her husband during very strict visiting hours... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

12 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

then could be tested experimentally. Studying doctors and patients The research team devised two experiments, one involving primary care doctors, the other, patients. In the first experiment, the researchers asked physicians to evaluate... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

How Technological Disruption Changes Everything

the fundamental causal mechanisms through which our lives have improved," Christensen said. Health Care Takes A Hit At the conference, Christensen looked forward to areas where disruptive technologies could soon or are already taking... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

productivity and quality of care can be increased by uncovering organizational factors associated with operational failures so that hospitals can reduce the frequency with which these failures occur.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

remotely from their homes or at a reading center. As new scans come in, they are randomly assigned to the radiologists, who must be licensed in the state and credentialed at the hospital where the scan was performed. The random assignment... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

European, Japanese, and U.S. scholars to discuss the experience of foreign firms in the U.S. over the last fifty years. The most striking conclusion of the volume was that Unilever's problems were not unique, and that many of the world's leading multinationals have... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace

17 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 17

we use longitudinal data from 3,458 U.S. acute care hospitals and examine the relationships between conformance and experiential quality and two important dimensions of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

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 Report as #4 in the nation in 2012-2013. It... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 15

for six years in a row; but leadership saw CHOP as more than the large main campus in western Philadelphia. Beginning in the 1990s, CHOP had created a large network of Primary Care Providers, Specialty Care... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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