Health Costs - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Oct 2020
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How to Build Workplaces That Protect Employee Health

01 Feb 1997
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Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution

already have lower occupancy due to advances in technology. Then where does the misconception arise that expensive technology - such as MRIs and CAT scanners - is pushing up the cost of health care?... View Details

03 Oct 2019
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Clubs Convene to Focus on Health Care

public health care, skyrocketing costs of prescription medications, and how AI-assisted personal medicine is coming in the future.” Ahmed says the Cleveland Clinic Canada (CCC) represents one of the growing... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived

help achieve better access to care and a lower cost of care. And employers are embracing telemedicine as a way to provide employees convenient health care at a lower cost for... View Details

Keywords: Halle Tecco (MBA 2011), founder emeritus, Rock Health; angel investor; adjunct professor, Columbia Business School

13 Sep 2022
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‘Prices Are Wrong’: Caps on Hospital Costs in US Gain Ground

01 Dec 2007
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Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

No sector of our economy is more in need of innovation than health care, yet its many regulations handcuff entrepreneurs. A consumer-driven health-care system will unlock these shackles to bring about a much-needed entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management

14 Sep 2017
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Insurers cutting back on drug coupons amid concerns over consumer costs

01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day... View Details

23 Jul 2021
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The Cost of the Olympics’ ‘Runaway Arms Race’ and New Hope for Student Loan Borrowers in Bankruptcy

01 Sep 2008
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In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care

cost of care. Farmer said that he has learned from his work in very poor countries that “comprehensive rural health care must go beyond the purely clinical by also providing socioeconomic support. Nutrition,... View Details

Keywords: HIV/AIDS; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Sep 2016
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Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup

workers), who work as virtual health care assistants, handling everything from long-term care arrangements to transportation. Wellthy’s digital platform is designed as a consumer- friendly project management tool, and allows for... View Details