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Who Benefits Most in Disease Management Programs?

Disease management programs aim to reduce cost by improving the quality of care for chronic diseases. Evidence of their effectiveness is mixed. Reducing health care spending sufficiently to cover program costs has proved particularly challenging. This study uses a... View Details

October 2023
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Vida Health: Transforming Chronic Disease Treatment

By: William Sahlman and Nicole Tempest Keller

San Francisco based Vida Health, founded by Stephanie Tilenius, former vice president of Commerce and Payments at Google, was a B2B digital health startup focused on the treatment of cardiometabolic conditions, such as diabetes and obesity. Its innovative digital... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Health Care and Treatment; Product Marketing; Risk and Uncertainty; Technological Innovation; Health Industry; Technology Industry; United States; California; San Francisco

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The a2 Milk Company (a2MC) became the most valuable company listed on the New Zealand stock exchange in 2018 by capitalizing on a biochemical discovery related to the protein composition of cow’s milk--cows naturally produce two types of beta casein proteins (A1 and... View Details

09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

After a first year of trial rollout in Israel, CEO Lihi Segal and her team are devising a global go-to-market plan for the firm. The team is considering several target markets, ranging from people with diabetes to professional athletes,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Navy Medicine Introduces Value-Based Health Care

By: Alee Hernandez, Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski, C. Forrest Faison III and Michael E. Porter

In 2016 the newly appointed surgeon general of the Navy launched a value-based health care pilot project at Naval Hospital Jacksonville to explore whether multidisciplinary care teams (known as integrated practice units, or IPUs) and measurement of outcomes could... View Details

Keywords: Military Health System; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Projects

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Fund, an impact investment fund he co-founded in 2016 that has used a venture philanthropic model to catalyze over $700 million of private capital investment in type one diabetes (T1D) cure therapeutics. Sean has held a range of volunteer... View Details

15 Mar 2024
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Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

for Ozempic, the costly medicine for diabetes that is often used off-label for weight loss. “We don’t have 1,000 people with diabetes all of a sudden, but we can’t go have that conversation with them because... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Consumer Tech, Social Impact Tech Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: A few years ago, I found out that my father was at risk for diabetic retinopathy—a condition that can cause vision loss in diabetics.... View Details

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CSV in Practice - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Shared Value in Products & Markets Novo Nordisk developed diabetes training programs for Chinese physicians in partnership with government, NGOs, and opinion leaders to disseminate the latest thinking on View Details

04 Apr 2024
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The Making of a Medical Milestone

which is toxic to the kidneys and causes diabetes and hypertension—the two most common reasons people need kidney transplants, ironically. Our drug was specifically designed not to have these side effects. Today in the US, we don’t have... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News

No one wants to hear that their car exhaust is hurting the planet, or that their jeans were made in a sweatshop, or that their doughnut might give them diabetes one day. In fact, people often go to great lengths to avoid information that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

22 Feb 2022
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Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

and women more often than male-led teams do. “Women are more likely to work on topics like endometriosis or cervical cancer, but they're also more likely to find ways to adapt inventions for women in research on conditions like diabetes... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Oct 2000
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Carlos A. Saladrigas: Hardworking Optimist

Vincam became ADP TotalSource, and Saladrigas, as CEO, oversees the company's twenty regional offices and over eighty thousand employees. A Man of the Year award from the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation and an Alumnus of Distinction honor... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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Ascensia Diabetes Care Ask Big Questions AstraZeneca athenahealth ATI Physical Therapy | Advent International Portfolio Company Atlantic Council Augmedix Inc. Autism Spectrum Therapies Avenue Pacific AVIA Axcella Health B Bain & Co. Bank... View Details

02 Jun 2021
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A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

physicians could also provide patients with outcome data for local hospitals, nudging them toward facilities with better track records. Such changes could help not only heart attack patients, but also patients suffering from a wide variety of diseases, including View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

preventing diabetes in indigenous populations. “I quickly realized that business alone was not enough to reverse the dysfunction of some tribal economies,” says Keen. Earlier, he’d experienced the fallout of an LBO at Maine shipbuilder... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

31 Jul 2019
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Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training

times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses like diabetes or heart disease. So why do many companies fail to help their workers battle mental health disorders? “There’s a silence... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

01 Jun 2012
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Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas

Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability in the developing world, affecting nearly 250 million people worldwide. Yet most can’t afford the blood glucose monitoring needed to manage their condition. For a target group... View Details

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Alfred E. Mann

Mann was a prolific inventor who developed many lifesaving medical devices including the rechargeable pacemaker which formed the basis of the successful Pacesetter company. Mann continued to perfect the pacemaker and developed other biomedical devices. Though he sold... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

01 Mar 2017
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A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

recovery costs weren’t borne by the hospitals, they had not been motivated to find the low total cost alternative. After Kaplan pointed out the discrepancy, some hospitals switched to the lower-cost pre-surgical consultations. Kaplan cites View Details