Publications

31 Jan 2018
News

Can Amazon and Friends Handle Health Care? There’s Reason for Doubt

20 May 2016
News

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

11 Sep 2018
Blog Post

Care for the Elderly: Process is More Important Than the Destination

With the support of the HBS Summer Fellows Program, I had the opportunity to follow my passion and work on my project to support senior care in China. As China is entering into an ageing society sooner than everyone might have imagined... View Details

Keywords: Health Care

March 2011
Teaching Note

PrimedicProviding Primary Care in Mexico (TN)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

Teaching Note for 811040. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Business Model; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Mexico

February 1985 (Revised January 2024)
Case

Health Stop (A): What Type of Innovation Is It? And Six Factors Alignment

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Joyce Lallman, Nancy Kane, Jefferson C. Grahling and James Wallace

How can we evaluate if innovative health care ventures can do good—benefit society—and do well—become financially viable? This question is the topic of the first module in the Innovating In Health Care course book. This note and case series enables readers to conduct... View Details

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Valuation; Health Industry; Health Industry

December 2016
Article

US Hospital Engagement in Core Domains of Interoperability

By: A Jay Holmgren, Vaishali Patel, Dustin Charles and Julia Adler-Milstein

Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Information Technology

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April 1978 (Revised May 1993)
Teaching Note

Child Care Task Force, Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Welfare; Health Industry

18 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

Several months ago, Harvard's Forum on Health Care Innovation surveyed industry executives, policy makers, academics, and doctors about the state of health View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

March 1997 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Help the World See: Self-Sustaining Eye Care in Belize

In 1992, Help the World See (HTWS), a U.S. nonprofit organization dedicated to improving eye care in developing countries, established permanent, self-sustaining eye care clinics in Belize in conjunction with the Belize Council for the Visually Impaired (BCVI). The... View Details

Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Belize

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October 2024
Article

Challenges and Facilitators in Implementing Remote Patient Monitoring Programs in Primary Care

By: Ruth Hailu, Jessica Sousa, Mitchell Tang, Ateev Mehrotra and Lori Uscher-Pines

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in greater use of remote patient monitoring (RPM). However, the use of RPM has been modest compared to other forms of telehealth.
Objective: To identify and describe barriers to the implementation of RPM among primary... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technology Adoption; Health Industry

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March 2015
Case

The I-PASS Patient Handoff Program

By: Robert S. Huckman and Michael Norris

In 2015, the I-PASS Patient Handoff Program Team, led by six pediatricians around the U.S., had to determine the best way to disseminate their program that had been proven to reduce communication errors in patient handoffs in hospital settings. Should they turn it into... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Hospitals; Operations Improvement; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States

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

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

March 2023 (Revised April 2023)
Case

Shelly Sun at BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leader

By: Boris Groysberg, Colleen Ammerman and Sarah L. Abbott

Shelly Sun had founded BrightStar Care, a home health care and medical staffing agency, 20 years earlier and had grown the business to over 300 franchised locations and $654 million in annual system-wide sales. Sun had spent years working to get “the right people in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneur; Family Business; Franchising; Health Care; Women-owned Businesses; Growth And Scaling; Organization; Franchise Ownership; Entrepreneurship; Work-Life Balance; Growth and Development; Health Industry; United States

September 2023
Supplement

Fighting the Battle of the Bulge—Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

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

Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Obesity; Weight Loss; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Health Industry