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Consumer-Driven Health Care: Taming the Health Care Cost Monster
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Consumer-Driven Health Care: Taming the Health Care Cost Monster." Journal of Financial Service Professionals 58, no. 2 (March 2004): 44–48.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care
By: Amitabh Chandra and Douglas O. Staiger
In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this variation as unwarranted and push standardization of care as a way of reducing allocative inefficiency. However, an... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods
Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas O. Staiger. "Identifying Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 24035, November 2017.
- 11 Mar 2014
- News
Health companies eye predictive software for patient care
- February 2021
- Article
Health Care Measurements That Improve Patient Outcomes
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Lara Jehi, Clifford Y. Ko, Andrea Pusic and Mary Witkowski
This article describes the challenges and solutions in determining whether a patient’s treatment has been successful. Such an assessment depends on multiple factors, including the patient’s pretreatment status; the qualifications of personnel performing the treatment;... View Details
Keywords: Outcomes Measurement; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics
Kaplan, Robert S., Lara Jehi, Clifford Y. Ko, Andrea Pusic, and Mary Witkowski. "Health Care Measurements That Improve Patient Outcomes." NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery 2, no. 2 (February 2021).
- July–August 1994
- Article
Making Competition in Health Care Work
By: Elizabeth O. Teisberg, M. E. Porter and Gregory B. Brown
Teisberg, Elizabeth O., M. E. Porter, and Gregory B. Brown. "Making Competition in Health Care Work." Harvard Business Review 72, no. 4 (July–August 1994).
- 19 Aug 2009
- News
Government should get back to the basics on health care
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
The US Health Care System Isn’t Built for Primary Care
- 02 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Pursuing A Passion in Health Care
Hej! Reporting from Copenhagen here. My first year of HBS is complete, and I moved here one month ago for my summer internship. I’m working in New Product Development at Radiometer – a medical device subsidiary of Danaher. I came to HBS from consulting and was hoping... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 27 Apr 2015
- News
A Peek Inside the Harvard Forum on Health Care Innovation
- 3 Jun 2005
- Other Presentation
How Business Can Lead a Health Care Revolution
This presentation draws on a forthcoming book with Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg (Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press). Earlier publications about the work include the Harvard Business Review article... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "How Business Can Lead a Health Care Revolution." G100, New York City, NY, June 3, 2005.
- 31 Mar 2015
- News
Reinventing the Way Medicaid Delivers Care
- 22 Jan 2014
- Lecture
Value Based Health Care Delivery: Applications
Porter, Michael E. "Value Based Health Care Delivery: Applications." Lecture at the A Strategy to Fix Healthcare, Reform, London, England, January 22, 2014.
- 29 Jan 2009
- News
Christensen on disruption in health care
- 2025
- Working Paper
Expert Patients’ Use of Avoidable Health Care
By: Amitabh Chandra, Pragya Kakani and Simone Matecna
We measure whether expert patients – those trained as physicians and nurses – have fewer emergency department visits and the reasons for these differences. Relative to similar patients physicians and nurses had 19.8% and 5.1% fewer ED visits, principally due to fewer... View Details
Chandra, Amitabh, Pragya Kakani, and Simone Matecna. "Expert Patients’ Use of Avoidable Health Care." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 33573, March 2025.
- 05 Jul 2012
- News
What Now? Health Care After the Supreme Court's Decision
- 19 Jul 2022
Industry Spotlight: Health Care at HBS
Wonder what an MBA could do to help with your professional growth in health care? Hear from alumni in the health care industry as they reflect on the amazing resources that HBS... View Details
- August 2011 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
Amil and the Health Care System in Brazil
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
Dr. Edson Bueno created Amil, Brazil's largest health insurer. Unlike many others, it is vertically integrated. Dr. Bueno has two opportunities for growth. Which, if any, should he pursue? View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Opportunities; Insurance; Vertical Integration; Insurance Industry; Brazil
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho. "Amil and the Health Care System in Brazil." Harvard Business School Case 312-029, August 2011. (Revised July 2014.)
- 13 May 2010
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