Cancer Care Services - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer in which abnormal white blood cells grow quickly. They comforted her by saying that the chemotherapy they were prescribing would attack the abnormal cells. And it did. But her recovery from post-remission... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

25 Aug 2014
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The First Five Years: Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010)

Raymond Hwang (MBA 2010) Why spine surgery? “Spine surgery has an appealing and somewhat unique set of characteristics. There is a great deal we have yet to understand about spine-related disorders, making the practice and research of spine View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis

delivery systems take advantage of new approaches for interacting with patients. Historically, telemedicine has been seen by many health care systems as a source of competition; my hope is that more systems will start to think about... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

18 Nov 2021
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Strength in Numbers

American Cancer Society for the mental health field—an organization that can increase awareness, reduce the stigma, and rally donors to make large, multiyear funding commitments to the most promising care... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2007
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Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

drove productivity in the IT sector. These entrepreneurs, and so many others, have fundamentally improved our economy by making goods and services better, cheaper, and more accessible. But can you name any innovators in our bloated,... View Details

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

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

community through board work at Rising Ground and Service Program for Older People, both of which have rallied to help New York City through the crisis,” he says. Pandemic exposes underlying weaknesses in health View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

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Getting Involved - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Model Patient

world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A 2007 McKinsey study found that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

cancer still progressing, he and his wife decided it was time to stop treatment. At the age of 74, Sato-san settled in for his final stages in the heart of his home—the altar to his ancestors to his left, oxygen machine to his... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2009
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A New Approach to Health-Care Reform

they know what disruptive innovation means, but I’ve found it’s often misunderstood. The simplest way to describe it — in a way that applies to health care or any industry — is innovation that transforms a product or View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Health, Social Assistance

Portrait Project

Matthew Naunheim

hand. I, too, have begun to leave scars on the people and things I care about. In health care, the wounds are many, and they need fixing: An elderly Haitian immigrant without insurance. A smoker with throat View Details

03 Feb 2014
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Eyes on Medical Breakthroughs

1979), she learned not only about the workings of the human body, but also about the value of relationships and collaboration. It all added up to make her one of the savviest health care sector investors in the country. In the early... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

20 Jan 2015
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Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized

health care system. Bushkin’s unassuming item is MedKaz®, a 4-GB flash drive carried on a keychain or in a wallet that can hold a lifetime of medical records, giving patients control over their data and providing a full picture for... View Details

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

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Jason Flood

up-close experience of the United States’ health care system. “There were mind-boggling inefficiencies both in terms of delivery and coordination,” Jason says. “We had multiple doctors who failed to communicate to each other and ordered... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Tech

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

crucial role in helping to combat Ebola in Liberia. Founded in 2007 to serve the most remote of Liberia’s 15 counties grappling with the HIV/AIDS crisis, Last Mile Health recruits, trains and supports community members not already in the health View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

01 Sep 2020
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Turning Point: Change, Stat

system that pays for quantity without regard to quality and opaque regulations, in fact one study found that nearly 80 percent of the rules patients and physicians cited as barriers to great care were basically rumors. Plus, we have a... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; healthcare; medicine; innovation; interpersonal communication; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

Portrait Project

Elizabeth Bruyere

I was not surprised by my mother's soft, patient knock at 4 AM to tell me that my father had died. It was a moment I had been anticipating each day for five years after his Stage IV cancer diagnosis, and with even more certainty after he... View Details

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