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- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
cross-functional coordination, and profitability management. Current product-tracking technology makes problem diagnosis much easier than the time of the original study. By and large, companies using this methodology see lowered costs and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
care organization that has embraced the concept of tradeoffs with positive results. Some time ago, the Mayo Clinic decided to focus on the priority of reducing the amount of time patients wait to be seen. As a result, today you can get a Mayo Clinic View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
around an integrated care model. For example, accompagnateurs, community healthworkers who make frequent home visits to administer drugs and check on individuals with HIV and TB, ensure timely diagnosis and adherence to therapy. This both... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
face of this frightening disease. “The diagnosis was shocking,” says Kremer, a former officer in the Israel Defense Forces and project manager at a high-tech Israeli defense-industry firm. “I had so many plans for the future, so many... View Details
- Profile
Raymond Hwang
symptoms, test results, examination findings, and patient preferences. The surgeon’s job is essentially to distill this diverse information into a diagnosis and treatment plan. In the operating room, the process is reversed. At the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
London, Chicago, New York, Boston, Cologne, and Frankfurt in search of a fuller diagnosis and cutting-edge medical advice. The extraordinary effort gave his 59-year-old mother another 10 months with her family. And it inspired Jarzabek to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Student Trio Advance Health Payment Reform
focused on how to calculate a fixed price for all services related to a specific condition — knee replacement. (The hospital is nationally recognized for expertise in orthopedic surgery.) The “bundled” price would cover everything from View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
students. He downplays his ability to continue functioning throughout his medical ordeal. “It is much harder to watch a loved one go through something like this,” he says, quietly mentioning that his mother was found to have the same cancer shortly after his own View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
IT systems that handle a good chunk of the work, Quelch says. Yet consumer trust when it comes to data privacy is not always a given, and consumers want to have a say. Some people fear that information about a serious disease diagnosis or... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
physicians are skeptical of recent innovations. Their “first do no harm” training favors a trial-and-error approach based on treating for the most likely diagnosis first, and moving on to something else if that doesn’t work. Third,... View Details
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Henry McCance
Twelve years ago, when Henry McCance (MBA 1966) and his wife initially faced her diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, the couple consulted some of the world’s top physicians specializing in its treatment. McCance was shocked by their advice.... View Details
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
diagnose patients by comparing their symptoms to millions of similar cases stored in a database. One can imagine, for example, a health worker in a remote area of a developing country where there are no doctors making a cell phone call to a Watson-like system for View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
improvements and concrete action plans that were designed to improve patient conversion and timelines, from diagnosis to treatment,” Leger explains. “The project led to fewer required patient visits, better management of patient... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 16 Mar 2017
- News
Making Rapid Progress in the Fight Against Cancer
diagnosis of cancer. And that’s come from fewer than 1 in 4 about 40 years ago. “The question is, how do we go from where we have made progress to tackling some of the more, what have been, intractable challenges, over the last 30 or 40... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
meeting for the very latest on the coronavirus pandemic. In his work as the CEO and Chief Medical Officer of Enable Biosciences, an award-winning early and accurate disease diagnosis company in San Francisco, Seftel had been aware of the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
determinate intervals. Indeed it is, and Schumpeter's own stance is guarded and empirically informed. As he said to Mitchell, "Any such diagnosis stands and falls with the historical evidence on which it rests." Theory is... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Network Effect
Henry McCance, founder (left), and Tim Armour, President & CEO, of Cure Alzheimer's Fund Twelve years ago, when Henry McCance (MBA 1966) and his wife initially faced her diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, the couple consulted some of the... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
turn-around would require a national economic strategy—and that would require a functional political system. A turn-around would require a national economic strategy—and that would require a functional political system. Amid the grim View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
Wheeler has incorporated concepts and techniques from other arenas where circumstances are in flux and information is imperfect—from military combat and medical diagnosis to improvisational theater and jazz. Hitting The Right Notes "There... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
cofounder of finalist Lucidity Health. The company’s app uses artificial intelligence to analyze x-rays and help frontline physicians lacking access to a radiologist make a diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan—a boon for hospitals in... View Details