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  • 23 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

discovered that the error was made a year before when it had reconfigured a scanner to improve doctors’ ability to see blood flow in the brain. More than 200 patients had suffered the same fate, receiving up to eight times the normal dose... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 31 Oct 2014
  • Op-Ed

Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness

disease threat materializes. For example, hospitals are the first line of defense in an outbreak. Yet the number of patients that our hospitals can manage with extreme cases is extraordinarily low. We have only four bio containment units... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda; Health
  • 04 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

Medicare recipients who are admitted to a hospital end up back at the hospital in less than a month. Studies have shown that the frequency of those repeat stays could be reduced drastically if a doctor or nurse followed up with patients a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 29 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

intrusive, and negative." That wariness is costly, because feedback from the front lines is often vital to improving business practices and safety measures. With that in mind, Edmondson discussed how to foster a workplace culture of open... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

encouraged and instructed teens how to safely dispose of unused prescription medications in their homes. “Several thousand teens participated online or watched replays,” Langford says. SUD treatment providers are also searching for ways to alleviate barriers to View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54331 forthcoming American Economic Journal: Economic Policy Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

Roth discusses these and other markets in his reflective paper What Have We Learned from Market Design?, which draws from decades of his fieldwork. In the paper, published in 2008 and updated in September 2010, Roth discusses how issues of thickness, congestion, and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

Managing Errors in Organizations The Strategic Imperative of Psychological Safety and Organizational Error Management By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Paul Verdin Abstract—Despite discussion in the management literature about agile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

results. Some time ago, the Mayo Clinic decided to focus on the priority of reducing the amount of time patients wait to be seen. As a result, today you can get a Mayo Clinic diagnosis within 24 hours. For anxious View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service
  • 02 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 2, 2016

households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and thus provides full liquidity. However, commercial banks do not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

officers spent 30 to 60 minutes with frontline workers involved in the processes of a particular unit. In addition, they held open communication forums related to patient safety. After generating a list of issues from these two... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54036 August 23, 2018 NEJM Catalyst Using a New EHR System to Increase Patient Engagement, Improve Efficiency, and Decrease Cost By: French, Katy, Barbra Bryce Speer, Alexis B. Guzman, Tayab... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

practice. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52649 Physician Beliefs and Patient Preferences: A New Look at Regional Variation in Health Care Spending By: Cutler, David, Jonathan Skinner, Ariel Dora... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

fundamentally change the trajectory of a broken system. The bundled payment model, in contrast, triggers competition between providers to create value where it matters—at the individual patient level—and puts health care on the right... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?

uncovered by Cohen’s team apply to the coronavirus vaccines? The short answer: Yes, and the more rushed the approval process, the more likely patients will experience side effects from these drugs, Cohen says. We asked Cohen to discuss... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Pharmaceutical; Health
  • 11 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

played a key role in driving performance improvement. Q: How will you take this work further? What are your next steps? A: The ideas here have been an interest of ours for some time. For instance, one of us (Michael) has written a case study about a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

increased by 0.75 percentage points, increasing sales dispersion. Calibrating conventional inventory-ordering models, we show that to respond optimally to the observed increase in dispersion, the retailer would need to increase its cycle and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 15

The company could also revisit the previous two applications, tracking and tracing processed meat and tracking employee safety practices. At the other extreme, after seven years of R&D and marketing efforts and millions of dollars in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

patient satisfaction, and problems with patient safety. Nearly all U.S. health care organizations have used similar evidence to justify their investments in safety and quality.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

Abstract—The Food and Drug Administration approves new medical devices after in-depth reviews of safety and effectiveness data. Some have advocated for shorter review times to encourage innovation. We evaluated whether regulatory review... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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