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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

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

31 Oct 2013
News

Cleaning up the Affordable Care mess

05 Aug 2019
News

Navy saves money, improves patient outcomes through value-based care pilot: study

2017
Article

Organizational Support for Learning and Contribution to Improvement by Frontline Staff

By: Olivia Jung, Andrea Blasco and Karim R. Lakhani

Keywords: Tournaments; Innovation; Health Care Delivery

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March 2024
Article

Differences in Care Team Response to Patient Portal Messages by Patient Race and Ethnicity

By: Mitchell Tang, Rebecca Mishuris, Lily Payvandi and Ariel Dora Stern

Importance: The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with substantial growth in patient portal messaging. Higher message volumes have largely persisted, reflecting a new normal. Prior work has documented lower message use by patients who belong to minoritized racial... View Details

Keywords: Health Pandemics; Technology Adoption; Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality; Communication Technology; Race; Ethnicity; Health Industry

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20 Feb 2018
News

Electronic Health Records Don’t Reduce Administrative Costs

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Working Paper

Non-Adherence in Health Care: A Positive and Normative Analysis

By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson

Non-adherence in health care results when a patient does not initiate or continue care that a provider has recommended. Previous research identifies non-adherence as a major source of waste in US health care, totaling approximately 2.3% of GDP, and have proposed a... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Behavior; Economics; Analysis; Mathematical Methods

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31 Jan 2018
News

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

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Trends and Predictors of Biomedical Research Quality, 1990–2015: A Meta-Research Study

By: Maryaline Catillon

Keywords: Biomedical Research; R＆D; Innovation; Technology; Drug Trials; RCT; Health; Healthcare; Health Care And Treatment; Health Care Policy; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Research and Development; Technological Innovation; Health Industry; Health Industry

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April 2010
Teaching Note

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center: Spine Care (TN)

By: Robert S. Huckman and Michael E. Porter

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Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Research; Performance Effectiveness; Outcome or Result; Education Industry; United States

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12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

spending more money to hire a firm like Merrill Lynch that has people actively managing their stock portfolios. “Neither one of these approaches is better or worse than the other,” Quelch said. “They cater to two different types of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

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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18 Aug 2014
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Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

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My research seeks to understand and improve service integration across specialized professions and organizations. A critical idea driving my research is that work is becoming more dynamic, complex and interconnected, particularly for work that addresses difficult... View Details

Keywords: Organization Behavior; Health Care Delivery; Team Effectiveness; Organizational Learning

01 Jun 2010
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Health IT at the Bedside

medical history existed. His primary care doctor was unaware of what his specialists were doing. A summary I had once written was now outdated. As much as any medication, my father needed health IT. This... View Details