Urgent Care Clinic - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Feb 2016
News

Challenge Aims to Speed Drug Trials Process

The HBS Health Care Initiative is seeking innovative ideas from the science, patient, business, and medical communities on how to transform trials for precision medicine. Through the HBS Precision Trials Challenge, it aims to bring... View Details

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

Digital Doctor In recent years, many physicians have put away pen-and-paper and taken up the keyboard or tablet to maintain patient health records. One motivation was the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

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Videos - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology® Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter: Solving Health Care Cost Crisis (Interview) HBS Professors Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E. Porter speak in an HBR... View Details

28 Jun 2010
HBS Case

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

well, because the senior team is tackling important problems and engaging people throughout the organization in solving them." One of the key players is Dr. Uma Kotagal, a neonatologist with a deep-seated passion for improving the quality of View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

01 Jun 2012
News

Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas

start-up in Bangalore cofounded by CEO Sidhant Jena (MBA 2011), has developed a mobile phone attachment that will enable patients to test their blood sugar and seamlessly transmit the results to a physician or nurse for appropriate feedback on diet, nutrition, and... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards

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Policymakers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

universal measurement and public reporting Link reimbursement to clinical performance using outcome reporting Set accounting standards for meaningful cost reporting in health care Accelerate the bundled... View Details

13 Nov 2020
News

Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

practiced; what it means to be a “health care provider” needs to expand to include caregivers without advanced clinical degrees; and the United States needs a new health insurance model. Huckman concludes,... View Details

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Exploring value-based care: My summer internship with Main Street Health - Recruiting

better understand their drivers of satisfaction and opportunities to improve efficiency. Through this, I gained insight into the unique challenges and rewards of rural health care. Hiring health care professionals, finding transportation,... View Details

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Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement

Practitioners Topics Topics Biotech/pharma Care Delivery Clinical Trials Digital Health Global Health Health Care Entrepreneurship Health Care... View Details

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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

information, managers and clinicians can standardize clinical and administrative processes, eliminate non-value added and redundant steps, improve resource utilization, and redesign care so that appropriate... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Disrupting India’s Dental Market

Amar Singh (MBA 1998) traces his curiosity about the Indian dental marketplace to the type of experience that might scare most people away for good. Lured in by the $20 price—roughly equal to Singh’s insurance copay when he lived in San Francisco—he visited a View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

Consulting Group's healthcare and social impact practice areas. Along the way, I learned some important lessons: Progress is not always linear or transformational. Systems have been shaped by misaligned incentives. Solutions cannot benefit patients if political,... View Details

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John Schupbach

"Being a physician is just a remarkable thing—for people to trust a complete stranger with their most urgent needs," says John. "No job in the world can give you that kind of relationship or reward." "But at the... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech

19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

business of rationality or emotionality?” To kick off the conversation, Raman relayed what happened when Cleveland Clinic CEO Delos "Toby" Cosgrove visited a class at HBS a few years ago to discuss a case study on the renowned hospital.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

many aspects of health care delivery in the United States changed—at least temporarily—out of a need to expand access to care. Outpatient care shifted from offices to telemedicine visits. Non-physician View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

01 Dec 2017
News

Case Study: The Doctor Deficit

that today’s nurse shortage could reach 1.2 million vacancies in the same time frame. Alexi Nazem (MBA 2011) has seen the impact of these shortages firsthand. “Health care is a very broken system,” says the doctor and cofounder of Nomad... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Mental Health | MBA

students seeking mental health services at HBS: MBA Student & Academic Services Staff Students may work with a member of the SAS team, who have clinical training and licensure in the state of Massachusetts and a significant breadth of... View Details

09 Apr 2020
News

“Raise the Line”

instance, more and more people are signing up for telemedicine, because people are still getting sick with everyday illnesses. If your child gets an ear infection, you don’t want to go to urgent care and... View Details

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Student Spotlight: From Nigeria to HBS: Reigniting My Passion for Healthcare Innovation - Blog: Health Supplement