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23 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

people with health insurance often are saddled with medical debt. Policymakers have taken notice, and in an election year amid an uncertain economy, health care, debt, and... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

care system into a consumer-driven model. What, in a nutshell, are the advantages to your proposal? And the risks? Herzlinger: The pros of consumer-driven health care: Unlike today's cookie-cutter insurance... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

established an insurance plan that insures many rural poor in two large, populous states in India for the equivalent of ten cents a day: "The numbers of people are so large, that for ten cents a day the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

analyze the complexities of disease management and check all avenues for potential business opportunities. The participants, almost all of them health professionals, sorted through the risks and benefits of disease management for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

other thing I would say is, and I’ve been meaning to get this off my chest for a few weeks, where are the health insurers in all of this? They’ve done a few things, like pay for COVID tests and waive... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2016
News

Off Script

(Thinkstock) Prescription drug spending increased by more than 13 percent in the United States in 2014, raising health insurance premiums and the ire of consumers and politicians. The reasons behind the rise... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities

01 Jun 2020
News

Vital Signs

telehealth to our advantage more than we have in the past. Because now the providers have ripped off the bandage. Telehealth procedures are in place. The health insurance plans are seeing the benefits and... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele; COVID-19; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

risks of business ownership and relaxing credit constraints," Olds writes in the 2014 paper "Entrepreneurship and Public Health Insurance." Studying The Social Safety Net Olds grew up on Medicaid, a Federal View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

Student-Profile

Olivia Zhao

mined from a day on the diamond. “I’ve loved baseball since I was a very small child,” she says. “I also have played softball all my life—currently I’m on the Harvard health policy team. Whether watching or playing, sports are a social... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

A Market-Based Prescription

without coverage in the United States — to establish a tax-supported way to fund their health care. That said, in my view, meaningful reform almost always begins in the private sector. I am encouraged that many employers are offering new... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Opinion: Making It Better

Global Health Care (BIG), an Executive Education program that attracted, among others, the Nigerian and Liberian ministers of health, the founders of South Africa's second-largest health View Details

Keywords: Herzlinger, Regina; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

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Previous Year Cost of Attendance Incoming Class Cost of Attendance 2024–2025 MBA Student Budget Class 2025 (EC) and Class of 2026 (RC) - 9 Months 9-Month Total Cost Single Tuition $76,410 Course & Program Materials Fee $2,650 HUHS Student View Details

19 Nov 2014
News

Creating tools to help patients be better informed about costs

Kyle Schultz (MBA 2004) works with a software company that is developing ways to notify patients about the costs of their health care procedures and the ways insurance can be applied. (Published November... View Details

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

and business. My plan is to compare internationally the legal and regulatory limits countries put on the ability to commercialize health information and what this tells us about the prospects for global health-care businesses. I have been... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Health; Health; Health

11 Dec 2014
News

Revolutionizing digital medical records

electronically search past records, freeing her to talk in more detail with her patient. Bushkin’s business model for MedKaz aligns the financial interests of all parties. Patients save deductibles and copays. Employers, insurers, and government enjoy lower View Details

August 14, 2008
Article

How Rehospitalizations Are Hurting Medicare

By: Robert C. Pozen

Keywords: Health; Insurance

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15 Dec 2024
News

After Ozempic

commitments to global health because most of the product is sold in the US to people who can afford it or have the insurance to cover it? Or should Novo do what it can to enhance its profits now, before the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

Rhenisch Rick Bern/Courtesy Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority A community organizer during the 1960s, Madelyn Rhenisch was a pioneering advocate for better medical care for the people of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

trying to secure specimens. Alongside primary medical education providers, a large number and wide range of other users are also trying to secure cadavers for their own needs. The continuing training of medical doctors, for instance, relies on cadavers. In addition,... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

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