Patient Monitoring Devices - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need

technology. Yet those opportunities came with managerial challenges. Remote patient monitoring represents a case in point. “Medicine has traditionally relied on a physician seeing a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

much less the kind of devices that they need. So this idea that we can conduct education remotely, it will work for some children, the most advantaged children, but it will take disadvantaged populations and move them farther behind than... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

automatically must be delegated to the damage control specialists. A crisis can be your friend. Never forget that crises do not automatically reduce complacency. If not monitored and handled well, burning platforms can be disastrous,... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

30 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides

The researchers also monitored whether customers closed their accounts during that time. The data helped researchers compare the loyalty and profit potential of customers who received each marketing message. After all, credit cards are... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

06 Aug 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

storytelling devices and the range of storytelling features that brands use in this one moment and in this one platform. The second reason is that it's such a significant cultural, economic, social, commercial enterprise, the Super Bowl,... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

23 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

singing the first verse of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'." Instantly, the participants' heart rate monitors shot up. She inserted one important twist: Before performing, she asked participants to repeat a statement out loud.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

says. “If an employee is cranking at home because he’s good at it, but his colleagues are struggling, don’t start assigning all the work to him,” she says. “Managers should be patient and give people time to catch up, so you’re not adding... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

discovered that the error was made a year before when it had reconfigured a scanner to improve doctors’ ability to see blood flow in the brain. More than 200 patients had suffered the same fate, receiving up to eight times the normal dose... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies

27 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

accounting have to do with improving patient outcomes in Haiti? HBS faculty members discuss their research and what it means for patients, providers, and industries. A Good Place to Start Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health CareIn a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies

29 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

the group is considering increasing its investment focus to include a broader range of technologies, including emerging technologies (for example, mobile and RFID technologies) and non-information technologies (including medical devices... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

hourly wage. The entrepreneurial venture's donors were, however, significantly younger, more likely to be from a minority group, and more likely to have died from cancer. For-profit organizations, continuing medical training organizations, and medical View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

operating system for dealing with elective (largely surgical) patients. By opening an emergency room, however, the institution is now called upon to care for complex and highly variable medical patients. Asks if the previous operating system is appropriate for this new... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

those already sick, mobile health adds equally important benefits. From remote monitoring to in-body sensors, mobile health innovations enable patients to spend fewer expensive and less than pleasant days in... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

of the financial scandals that propelled the recent economic collapse, Heese looked at enforcement by the Securities and Exchange Commission, asking why regulators were so amiss at monitoring firms' compliance with accounting standards.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

for the number and cost of the services they provide rather than by the value of those services in helping patients. In short, medical professionals make money when their patients become sick. Here's one example of how the problem plays... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

hospitals and governments. Separately, Medtronic is using its remote monitoring capabilities to track people with coronavirus in their homes. (Full disclosure: I am a former chair and CEO of Medtronic). Adam Schechter, LabCorp CEO, and... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

"The concept of people, be they patient or employee, holding back information either knowingly or just forgetting, is a problem that can kill a patient or a company." Others suggested important... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

31 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

largest insurance program. To meet this target, the government will rely on technology to effectively scale services, monitor quality, and ensure accountability. While India has seen great strides in informational technology development... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

manipulation that involves misclassifying a patient into a diagnosis-related group that yields higher reimbursement. As overbilling allows hospitals to increase revenues without altering operations, affecting costs, or having to reverse... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

the number of hospitalizations and severe complications among diabetic patients," they wrote. Disease management, then, can take several approaches. The simplest is probably for the healthcare provider to offer a monitoring system... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

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