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THE VALUE OF THE PHYSICIAN SHADOW PROGRAM: Witnessing The Front Lines of Care Delivery - Blog: Health Supplement
Perioperative and Pain Medicine. “I was briefed on the day and then accompanied Dr. Muehlschlegel to meet with a patient who was scheduled to have open heart surgery,” said Erika. “In the operating room, Dr. Muehlschlegel and his... View Details
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
kidney disease Diabetes Congestive heart failure Care transition patients to reduce frequency of readmission Primary and psychiatric care for patients with intellectual and behavioral disabilities Behavioral... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
symptoms of diseases like diabetes or congestive heart failure. Before the implantable congestive heart failure monitor, for example, we had very poor diagnostic tools to alert... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
illustration by Marcos Chin illustration by Marcos Chin It’s hard to overstate the impact that antibiotics had on medicine after they became widely available in the 1940s. In the United States, the leading causes of death shifted from infectious to noncommunicable... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
efficiency and effectiveness lie. The 20 percent have chronic diseases or disabilities, such as bad backs, heart disease, AIDS, diabetes, or asthma. These patients need the care of many different... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
University of Canterbury in New Zealand, in addition to her studies, Sommer was a catalyst for improved ser-vices nationwide for students with disabilities. “Effecting national policy on an issue so close to my heart was a terrific... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Gita's medical history and her symptoms suggest a heart problem, MeraDoctor ultimately recommends that she get an echocardiogram (for which she has to pay at a private facility because the government one is too crowded). The test reveals... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
kidney and liver transplants, and less pain medication when they are operated on. Furthermore, women with heart disease receive less angioplasty than men; Hispanics have a lower rate of recommended... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
drug he has ever taken that directly targets his DMD, a rare degenerative disorder in boys that weakens the body's muscles, usually putting sufferers in wheelchairs in adolescence and shutting down their heart and lungs in their 20s. For... View Details
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
estimate that employers spend 200 to 300 percent more on the indirect costs of poor health than they do on health benefits. The costs of poor health are especially high for chronic conditions such as diabetes, migraines, heart disease,... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
to 2.5 million women across the country and launching his own startup, Salud Cercana (Health Near You), to address the issue of heart disease in low-income Mexico communities. One of only a few Mexican... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
business and commercial development at Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "It will revolutionize how medicine is practiced," he states simply. "Right now the doctor listens to your heart with a stethoscope and maybe... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
resulted in a breast cancer diagnosis, and Langer's battle against the disease led her to volunteer at the then-pioneering National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO) in 1988. "We had the first extensive, disease-specific... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Just Breathe
survive and thrive with the help of these techniques. Talk about the physical toll of racism in the workplace and what that looked like for you. Studies show that discrimination and racism are linked to higher rates of high blood pressure and View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
to their specific needs—e.g., insurance for long-term care and drugs; easy access to integrated teams that specialize in treating chronic diseases and disabilities; pre-tax savings accounts for uninsured health care needs, such as hearing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
development at Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "It will revolutionize how medicine is practiced," he states simply. "Right now the doctor listens to your heart with a stethoscope and maybe draws a... View Details
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
heart attacks through a one-time change in a single gene. In most of these cases, business choices like market selection, financing strategy and pricing are critical determinants of the value of the technology to humanity. The course will... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
company pressed forward with launches of GMO food products in Europe, giving far too little weight to the fact that Europeans were still reeling from the mad cow disease crisis, reports of dioxin-contaminated chicken, and numerous other... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
coordinated and aligned to focus on one or more specific diseases or conditions, such as cancer or heart disease. The organizational structure and staffing, work processes, and facilities will evolve to... View Details
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
cycle of care. The business is congestive heart failure, for example, not heart surgery, cardiology, angiography, or anesthesiology. Traditional specialties are often too broad. The business is not... View Details