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- 12 Aug 2020
- Video
Community Health Workers on the Front Lines of Disease Control
- Article
Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study
By: Noy Alon, Ariel Dora Stern and John Torous
BACKGROUND: As the development of mobile health apps continues to accelerate, the need to implement a framework that can standardize categorizing these apps to allow for efficient, yet robust regulation grows. However, regulators and researchers are faced with numerous... View Details
Keywords: Mobile Health; Smartphone; Food And Drug Administration; Risk-based Framework; Health Care and Treatment; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Framework
Alon, Noy, Ariel Dora Stern, and John Torous. "Assessing the Food and Drug Administration's Risk-Based Framework for Software Precertification with Top Health Apps in the United States: Quality Improvement Study." JMIR mHealth and uHealth 8, no. 10 (October 2020).
- September 2024 (Revised March 2025)
- Case
Epic: The Future of Health Information Technology
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Brian L. Walker
How should the founder and leadership team of a health IT company with more than 45 years of market leadership prepare for the future, while navigating founder transitions and industry changes? Founded by Judy Faulkner in the late 1970s, Epic pioneered electronic... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Private Ownership; Customer Focus and Relationships; Information Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Health Industry; Health Industry; Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Brian L. Walker. "Epic: The Future of Health Information Technology." Harvard Business School Case 325-028, September 2024. (Revised March 2025.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing
By: Amitabh Chandra, Evan Flack and Ziad Obermeyer
We use the design of Medicare’s prescription drug benefit program to demonstrate three facts about the health consequences of cost-sharing. First, we show that an as-if-random increase of 33.6% in out-of-pocket price (11.0 percentage points (p.p.) change in... View Details
Chandra, Amitabh, Evan Flack, and Ziad Obermeyer. "The Health Costs of Cost-Sharing." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28439, February 2021.
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
As the opening presenter at the two-day conference, sponsored by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, Christensen made the case for how disruptive innovation could give consumers access to simpler, less expensive, quality care.... View Details
- April 2013
- Article
Setting Health Priorities: Strategy versus Tactics
By: Michael Chu, David E. Bloom and Elizabeth Cafiero
Health decision makers throughout the world are faced with a multiplicity of challenges. As resource limitations are a fundamental fact of life, choices necessarily have to be made about which challenges to address, and the best way to tackle them. In this piece, we... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Decision Making; Health Care and Treatment; Problems and Challenges; Health Industry
Chu, Michael, David E. Bloom, and Elizabeth Cafiero. "Setting Health Priorities: Strategy versus Tactics." Impact, the Magazine of PSI, no. 12 (April 2013).
- May 2016
- Article
How the Affordable Care Act Has Affected Cancer Care in the United States: Has Value for Cancer Patients Improved?
By: Stephen M. Schleicher, Nancy M. Wood, Seohyun Lee and Thomas W. Feeley
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), passed in 2010, contained a number of provisions with potential to directly or indirectly affect cancer care. Value for patients was widely discussed throughout the bill, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid... View Details
Schleicher, Stephen M., Nancy M. Wood, Seohyun Lee, and Thomas W. Feeley. "How the Affordable Care Act Has Affected Cancer Care in the United States: Has Value for Cancer Patients Improved?" Oncology 30, no. 5 (May 2016): 468–474.
- 2009
- Working Paper
Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict
By: Quy-Toan Do and Lakshmi Iyer
We survey the recent literature on the mental health effects of conflict. We highlight the methodological challenges faced in this literature, which include the lack of validated mental health scales in a survey context, the difficulties in measuring individual... View Details
Keywords: Ethnicity; War; Health Disorders; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Conflict and Resolution; Bosnia and Hercegovina
Do, Quy-Toan, and Lakshmi Iyer. "Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-040, November 2009.
- September 2023
- Supplement
Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment
This PowerPoint accompanies Regina E. Herzlinger's "Fighting the Battle of the Bulge – Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment" teaching note (HBS Case No.324-013) and is designed for instructors to use in the classroom when teaching this... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
If one thing has been made clear by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is this: The health care system in the United States (and most other nations) is not set up to respond to a large-scale medical emergency that affects tens of thousands of citizens simultaneously. But there... View Details
- 11 Apr 2016
- News
Professor Raffaella Sadun on Improving Care in Hospitals
- 09 Dec 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Mental Health in the Aftermath of Conflict
Keywords: by Quy-Toan Do & Lakshmi Iyer
- 26 Feb 2016
- News
Building bridges between public health and business
- April 2014 (Revised January 2015)
- Background Note
Note on Mobile Healthcare
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
Delivering health care to the global population was a challenge. Health care costs accounted for ten percent of world GDP by 2013. In the U.S., health care costs were expected to top $3.1 trillion in 2014. New technologies, shortages of trained personnel and... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Mobile; Mobile App; Public Health; Startups; Hardware; Software; Telemedicine; Global; Medical Devices; Medical Services; Medical Solutions; Entrepreneurs; Government And Business; Technological Change; Health Care and Treatment; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Health Industry; Health Industry
Quelch, John A., and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "Note on Mobile Healthcare." Harvard Business School Background Note 514-122, April 2014. (Revised January 2015.)
- January 2008 (Revised August 2012)
- Case
Retail Sales of Health Insurance: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Grady Clouse
The BCBS of Florida is contemplating whether to enter the consumer-driven health care market and if so, whether to target such groups—and individuals—and in which of its geographic markets, and how. View Details
- Teaching Interest
Overview
Michaela teaches management, healthcare and research methods courses across the undergraduate, master and executive levels. Her recent courses include organizational behavior, negotiation, research in health policy, and social entrepreneurship. View Details
- September 2016
- Article
Value Based Care and Bundled Payments: Anesthesia Care Costs for Outpatient Oncology Surgery Using Time-driven Activity-based Costing
By: Katy E. French, Alexis B. Guzman, Augustin C. Rubio, John C. Frenzel and Thomas Feeley
Background:
With the movement towards bundled payments, stakeholders should know the true cost of the care they deliver. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) can be used to estimate costs for each episode of care. In this analysis, TDABC is used to both... View Details
French, Katy E., Alexis B. Guzman, Augustin C. Rubio, John C. Frenzel, and Thomas Feeley. "Value Based Care and Bundled Payments: Anesthesia Care Costs for Outpatient Oncology Surgery Using Time-driven Activity-based Costing." Healthcare: The Journal of Delivery Science and Innovation 4, no. 3 (September 2016): 173–180.
- October 2010 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
PrimedicProviding Primary Care in Mexico
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Regina Garcia-Cuellar and Lauren Sarah Margulies
Primedic is a Mexican start-up that aims to deliver affordable primary and preventative healthcare to those at the base of the economic pyramid. The company is about to exhaust its first round of venture capital funding and the business model has yet to gain traction.... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Health Care and Treatment; Social Enterprise; Health Industry; Mexico
Hamermesh, Richard G., Regina Garcia-Cuellar, and Lauren Sarah Margulies. "PrimedicProviding Primary Care in Mexico." Harvard Business School Case 811-040, October 2010. (Revised July 2011.)