Digital Health Reforms - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2022
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The Well-Healed Athlete

innovation hubs will focus on “translating” its research for health care professionals, coaches, and trainers, as well as the everyday athlete. For instance, the University of Kansas’s Jayhawk Athletic Performance Laboratory will put... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health and Personal Care Stores; Health and Personal Care Stores

01 Jun 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Rebates in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Evidence from Medicines Sold in Retail Pharmacies in the U.S.

Keywords: by Pragya Kakani, Michael Chernew, and Amitabh Chandra; Health; Health

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Inessa Lurye

MBA/MPP degree at HBS and Harvard Kennedy School, Inessa helped expand the reach of the HBS Design Club, and fulfilled a field project at Harvard Art Museums that developed art workshops designed around specific group interests. One thing her work never touched upon... View Details

13 Mar 2020
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Expanding Cancer Care

Dana-Farber, I oversee our innovation work, which is a grouping of commercializing our science and our technology to bring it from the labs to patients by partnering with industry, partnering with the venture capital world, creating startups. We also think about View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match

Patients See more from the online-only December Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration of how the digital revolution has improved health care delivery and discovery. View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing

Leaders Program, which he helped to develop. A Supplement to Manual Tracing See more from the online-only December Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration of how the digital revolution has improved View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

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Christina LaMontagne

Christina (HBS '09, Dartmouth '03) has held senior roles across innovative healthcare companies. She has led small digital health companies to achieve market leadership and >$100M ARR and has helped... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

01 Mar 2016
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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 are many, including the high... View Details

Keywords: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

01 Sep 2004
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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... View Details

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

06 Oct 2015
First Look

October 6, 2015

2015 University of Chicago Press Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy By: Goldfarb, Avi, Shane Greenstein, and Catherine Tucker, eds. Abstract—As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2020
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AI Enhances Diagnostic Care

improved health care delivery and discovery. Digital Transformation of Health Care See more from the online-only December Alumni Bulletin Impact section’s exploration of how... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

20 Jan 2015
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Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

lifetime in investment banking, met with health industry and digital record experts to learn how to make the industry more efficient. Thus, Health Record Corporation (HRC),... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Mar 2014
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Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue

make decisions in challenging situations. Health care reform was making national headlines—and not in a good way—about the time the conference was held. Did you find that it quelled optimism or that people... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; healthcare; HBSAAA

09 May 2018
Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

new research about how scheduling affects worker behavior. The potential result: Americans could avoid 19 million foodborne illnesses, nearly 51,000 hospitalizations, and billions of dollars of related medical costs. Government health... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service

December 2006 (Revised August 2008)
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Pervasis Therapeutics, Inc.

By: Robert F. Higgins and Virginia Fuller

In May 2005, Steve Bollinger was about to become president and chief operating officer of Pervasis Therapeutics, a small cell therapy start-up in Cambridge, Mass. If proven successful, Pervasis' product, Vascugel, could change the way vascular disease is treated and... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Health Industry; Cambridge

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Laura Mackay

(e.g., new delivery models, digital health, etc.) is front and center. The level of access to thought leaders in the community and alumni network, as well as to entrepreneurs and established companies driving the latest insights and... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

16 Nov 2021
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Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest

pillars of health care in terms of the sectors, so we had pharma and biotech as one group, digital and IT, Investment, and then care providers,” says HBSHAA copresident Nicki MacManus (MBA 2009). “And... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

28 Jun 2011
News

Beyond Case Writing

interest in global health to the realization that an estimated 13 million people die each year for lack of low-cost products that could save their lives. Over the past seven years, she has conducted research projects in Zambia aimed at... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Mar 2010
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Faculty Research Online

weighs the benefits and opportunities for entrepreneurs and for society. “Right now, the field is wide open,” he says. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6333.html. Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music Record labels have depended... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

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