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November 2019
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A Review of Bundled Payments in Total Joint Replacement

By: Olivia Manickas-Hill, Kevin J. Bozic and Thomas W. Feeley

The Bundled Payments for Care Improvement (BPCI) initiative, developed by the U.S. Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, aims to reduce health care expenditures while maintaining or improving patient outcomes.
Several published reports evaluating the impact... View Details

Keywords: Bundled Payments; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management

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17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

first for-profit hospital in the southern city of Chennai in 1983. Today the Apollo Hospitals Group manages more than 30 hospitals and treats patients from many different... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

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leaving physicians overburdened and unfulfilled. The aim of this... May 2, 2024 Article Require Hospitals to Disclose Their Pandemic Plans Now By: Regina E. Herzlinger , Richard J. Boxer and Ben Creo The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated... View Details

16 May 2024
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On the Job

important because it gave me immediately some street cred many years later that I’d actually worked in a large hospital system and had worked on changing it and how to sell into hospitals and how... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

November 2022
Teaching Note

Proximie: Using XR Technology to Create Borderless Operating Rooms

By: Ariel D. Stern, Alpana Thapar and Menna Hassan

Founded by Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016, Proximie was a digital medicine platform that used mixed reality and a host of digital audio and visual tools to enable clinicians, proctors, and medical device company personnel to be virtually present in operating rooms (ORs),... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Decision Making; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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18 Dec 2017
Op-Ed

Why Employers Must Stop Requiring College Degrees For Middle-Skill Jobs

Credit: Pixsooz American companies have a problem. Over the past decade, they have begun to demand a bachelor’s degree in hiring workers for jobs that traditionally haven’t required one. This uptick in credentialing, or “degree inflation,” rested on the belief that... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller

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Frist Faculty Commons | About

replacing the Faculty Club formerly located in Kresge Hall. The space was named in honor of the Thomas F. Frist Jr. family, who have been generous supporters of financial aid at HBS. About the Name After serving as a flight surgeon in the air force, Dr. Thomas F. Frist... View Details

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Soley Olafsson

member who missed my college graduation as they attended treatment programs for substance abuse. I spent many nights sleeping on a hospital bench, as my significant other was getting treatment for leukemia. Not all of it was forced upon... View Details

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McCollum Center | About

Health Foundation, whose floating hospital ship HOPE gave free medical treatment around the world. He also spearheaded Project Orbis, a flying eye-care facility that brings medical treatment and education to underserved populations across... View Details

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Investing in Entrepreneurship

Crisp was a member of Memorial Sloan Kettering’s board for a remarkable four decades, leading almost every committee during his tenure. He has served on the boards of three hospitals and is an emeritus director of Memorial Sloan... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

Policy (Management) doctoral program at HBS. (Edmondson chaired her dissertation committee.) Prior to the redesign, the hospital used ad hoc groupings in the emergency department—any available nurse would triage a patient, then return the... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

01 Jun 1999
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Ikenna Okezie

education at the University of Tokyo Medical School. He also kept his quantitative skills honed working summers as a financial analyst in the Surgical Services Administration at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Three and a half... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

22 Aug 2005
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The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

On a larger scale, the U.S. Army is known for conducting After Action Reviews that enable participants to analyze, discuss, and learn from both the successes and failures of a variety of military initiatives. Similarly, hospitals use... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

01 Mar 2024
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On the Radar

Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Our planet is teeming with trillions of viruses and bacteria, most of which are innocuous or even helpful, but some pose a significant risk to public health, animals, and crops. In recent decades,... View Details

Keywords: Janine White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

28 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

appears to be true when you get a new type of consumer for the same product." In the pharmaceutical industry, for example, selling medicine to both an independent general practitioner and a hospital will require a different organizational... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

31 Mar 2023
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Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

more protection or benefits could purchase. For example, basic insurance pays for shared hospital rooms in Singapore, but only people who pay out of pocket or have private insurance can get private rooms. In many countries, private... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

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Social Innovation

My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details

14 Apr 2022
Op-Ed

Let’s Move Forward from COVID—Without Forgetting What We’ve Learned

The pandemic is winding down, and the world is moving toward an endemic approach. In the world's COVID-19 epicenter, New York City, businesses, restaurants, and Broadway have reopened now that 4 million New Yorkers have been vaccinated. Testing centers have begun to... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

12 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The Many Languages of Medicine to Impact Care Delivery

Diversity Innovation Hub, a Mount Sinai venture addressing social and structural determinants of health in NYC. Recently, Ted was named an HBS Kaplan Fellow and RISE Fellow. While on my pediatrics rotation at a hospital in New York City,... View Details

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