Diagnosis - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009

low-cost care. But in the case of iterative care, a patient's condition is unknown, and tremendous resources may be required for diagnosis and treatment, often with uncertain outcomes. Bohmer shows that to reduce costs and manage care... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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A Feasibility Study Using Time-driven Activity-based Costing as a Management Tool for Provider Cost Estimation: Lessons from the National TB Control Program in Zimbabwe in 2018

By: J. Chirenda, B. Nhlema Simwaka, C. Sandy, K. Bodnar, S. Corbin, P. Desai, T. Mapako, S. Shamu, C. Timire, E. Antonio, A. Makone, A. Birikorang, T. Mapuranga, M. Ngwenya, T. Masunda, M. Dube, E. Wandwalo, L. Morrison and R. S. Kaplan

Background: This study used process maps and time-driven activity-based costing to document TB service delivery processes. The analysis identified the resources required to sustain TB services in Zimbabwe, as well as several opportunities for more effective and... View Details

Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Provider Cost; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Zimbabwe

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Phil's work aims to identify the drivers of performance for healthcare organizations and providers, and the mechanisms by which this performance can change over time. In complex healthcare settings, the optimal choice of treatment can be highly ambiguous. As a... View Details

Keywords: Primary Care; Medical Decision-making; Learning By Doing; Healthcare Organizations; Healthcare Operations; Health Economics

February 2016 (Revised July 2017)
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Leadership and Independence at the Federal Reserve

By: David Moss and Marc Campasano

“From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy.” Ron Paul, a Republican from... View Details

Keywords: Government Legislation; Central Banking; Policy; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States

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01 Dec 2023
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Wide Horizon

antibiotic treatment—with one clinical trial from 1999 documenting such effects. Somebody’s got to do something about this, he thought. But he wasn’t positive it should be him. The incident came at an in ection point for Rodakis. His son’s View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Aligning Reimbursement with Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Bundled payments are risk adjusted single payments covering the full cycle of care for a condition from diagnosis through rehabilitation. The payment is contingent on achieving good outcomes, and allow providers to directly benefit by... View Details

22 Feb 2024
News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details

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life-changing diagnosis On the Road Less Traveled How Ed Hajim (MBA 1964) overcame a childhood of foster homes and orphanages to find success in finance—and how a family secret changed his life at age 60 Road Work What a seven-continent... View Details

19 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

holds in higher stakes settings such as medical diagnosis and treatment or credit lending.” That finding may be useful across industries from transportation to medicine as AI evolves and the quality—and quantity—of data climbs, DeStefano... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

03 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed With Your New Boss

conversations with your new boss: The situational diagnosis conversation. In this conversation you seek to understand how your new boss sees the business situation. Is it a turnaround or a startup or a realignment or a sustaining success... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

actual problem.” Thus, diagnosis of the situation is a prerequisite to crafting a response. They argue that volatility should be met with agility; uncertainty with information; complexity with restructuring (with internal operations... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

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Joe Coleman

I spent my 23rd birthday in a psychiatric hospital. Family and friends reassured me during visiting hours, but I was still terrified by my diagnosis bipolar disorder—an incurable condition that felt like a death sentence. Looking back,... View Details

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

the medical community. It is a complex disease that causes malformed blood vessels that can affect and rupture in multiple organs. As is often the case with rare diseases, the diagnosis and care for HHT are highly dependent on the... View Details

01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

diagnosis and treatment with genomic sequencing and machine learning to solve antibiotic resistance Nix—develops biosensors that analyze electrochemical biomarkers to deliver health and wellness data to consumers RapidSOS—securely links... View Details

Keywords: April White

11 Mar 2021
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Leading with Heart

didn't even think that far. I just wanted to take her to London, hoping that her diagnosis was incorrect and that I would find a way to come back. But unfortunately, the diagnosis was confirmed at the Great... View Details

01 Oct 2014
What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

For example, Jerome Groopman, in his book How Doctors Think, advised us as patients to ask what might be the most important question of our lives when consulting with a doctor who has reached, and too often focused mentally on, a View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2024
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INK: Taking Care

The sad and unfortunate fact is that one in every two people will develop cancer in their lifetime, Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) writes in her new book, Fatal to Fearless: 12 Steps to Beating Cancer in a Broken Medical System. It first happened to her more than 25 years... View Details

Keywords: Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2013
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Start Me Up

business or a social enterprise track, the fledgling companies pitched everything from early-stage Alzheimer's diagnosis technology to environmentally friendly lodging. Below, the four that the competition's alumni judges—plucked from the... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; infographic

07 Dec 2022
News

Putting Patients First

DaVita, which is focused on kidney care, differentiates itself, Rodriguez notes that his company's solution is a salve for a fragmented health care market. "Our patient population is unique enough that we can take care of the entire continuum, from education to View Details

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