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23 Aug 2018
News

Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming

from fellow health care leaders,” says Jon Puz (MBA 2008), who started the VRT program. “What started as a pilot project involving around two dozen alumni attendees, is now entering its eighth year with several thousand alumni having... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Health, Social Assistance

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

Professor Herzlinger shared her vision for health care in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. Herzlinger's next book, Consumer-Driven Health Care, will be published in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Apr 2014
News

Cash flow struggles can take down a company or spark ideas that transform an industry

hospitals, and patients were hurting athenahealth’s bottom line. Bush shifted the company’s focus from clinical care to Internet billing and information processing, and athenahealth now provides cloud-based practice management, billing,... View Details

March 2017 (Revised March 2017)
Case

OpenNotes

By: Jeffrey Rayport and Annelena Lobb

In 2017, executives at OpenNotes, a national movement to improve the relationship between doctors and patients by sharing doctors’ visit notes about patients with patients, were considering options in efforts to achieve scale. The movement hoped to reach 50 million... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technology Adoption; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States

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10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

the vendor of outsourced services can improve the efficiency and perhaps the quality of services delivered—particularly in health care, where outsourcing is on the rise. In research recently published in the journal Organization Science,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

01 Mar 2015
News

Clubs Hopping

result, says Carter, is an opportunity to share knowledge and experiences, improve care, and reduce costs. The ubiquity of mobile and visual communications. Health care professionals and patients now have convenient access to View Details

Keywords: April White; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2006
News

MD/MBA Program Launched

will produce “a new generation of leaders in health care.” Graduates of the program, whose enrollment will increase over time, will be encouraged to practice medicine before becoming senior executives in hospitals, health-care... View Details

Keywords: MD/MBA joint-degree program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

November 2010 (Revised January 2011)
Case

Computerized Provider Order Entry at Emory Healthcare

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil, Andrew Katz, Michael Morgan and David LaBorde

The Computerized Provider Order Entry at Emory Healthcare case presents one hospital system's efforts to implement computerized provider order entry (CPOE) across all of its hospitals and the challenges they faced in doing so. Issues such as standardization of care,... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Management; Management Systems; Standards; Service Delivery; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Projects; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Health Industry

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04 Mar 2008
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HBS Blogs

MBA 1979I Marv Slovacek, Czech Prague Mission Experience, 2007-2010, http://www.theslovaceks.blogspot.com/ (the Slovaceks' experiences while presiding over the Czech Prague LDS mission; archived since June 2007) MBA 1980I Sheryle Bolton,... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Information; Information; Information

01 Sep 2013
News

A Focus on You

HOME PAGE: Find the latest news, events, and alumni updates. As we plan each issue of the Alumni Bulletin, we scour our files and contacts for information about alumni who match that issue's special "focus" feature or other timely topics.... View Details

Keywords: Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

information that is most important to us (health data, for example, or cost data or comparative studies of clinical success rates or adoption placements) and then provide these data through public sources. Right now, it's simply too hard... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Health; Health; Health

01 Dec 2017
News

@Soldiers Field

Last month, health care executives and clinicians gathered to brainstorm strategies for navigating payment reform for providers, payers, and pharma. Speakers included HBS faculty Leemore Dafny and Robert Huckman, as well as Harvard... View Details

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

with a team on a new idea in the health IT space—one she believes has the potential to increase the quality of patient care, while lowering costs by giving control of health care View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Dec 2016
News

Case Study: Sweat the Technique

bulletin@hbs.edu From Baker Library: From step counting to remote patient monitoring, Rock Health reports on the emerging world of wearable biosensors. Curious to see where the broader consumer wearables market is headed? Check out growth... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

22 Jan 2018
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

and retain information as they enter the clinical environment.” How do you use what you learned at HBS in this work? Guram: “My health care classes provided me with incredibly valuable background View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services

17 Sep 2020
News

HBS Goes Back To School

2022), which offers guidance for students, staff, and faculty during re-entry—including details on community policies, information on campus access protocols, and a list of FAQs. AUGUST 21 In reaction to the pandemic and the resulting... View Details

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Christina LaMontagne

Christina (HBS '09, Dartmouth '03) has held senior roles across innovative healthcare companies. She has led small digital health companies to achieve market leadership and >$100M ARR and has helped larger global companies embrace... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

01 Jun 2017
News

Powered by the HBS Fund

alumni.hbs.edu/facultyresearch to watch: Professor Jan Rivkin talk about his passion for case writing and the origin of his case on LEGO’s return from bankruptcy. Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun discuss how she uses data to explore the impact of View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Five-Star Research

measurable impact on a business’s bottom line. For Luca, who has authored several studies on the topic—and is himself an occasional Yelp critic—online reviews are “one of the most powerful information sources that has emerged in decades,... View Details

Keywords: April White; Information; Information

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

was then, and is now, a matter of using personal data to secure public health. That raises both its promise and its perils, and the leadership task is to navigate the balance.” —PROFESSOR MITCHELL WEISS As COVID-19 was sweeping the globe in January 2020, public View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

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