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June 2024
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Valuing the Societal Impact of Medicines and Other Health Technologies: A User Guide to Current Best Practices

By: Jason Shafrin, Jaehong Kim, Joshua T. Cohen, Louis P. Garrison, Dana A. Goldman, Jalpa A. Doshi, Joshua Krieger, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Peter J. Neumann, Charles E. Phelps, Melanie D. Whittington and Richard Willke

This study argues that value assessment conducted from a societal perspective should rely on the Generalized Cost-Effectiveness Analysis (GCEA) framework proposed herein. Recently developed value assessment inventories—such as the Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness’s... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Valuation; Cost vs Benefits; Society

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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

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January 2016
Article

Incorporating Longitudinal Pediatric Patient-centered Outcome Measurement into the Clinical Workflow Using a Commercial Electronic Health Record: A Step Toward Increasing Value for the Patient

By: Kathleen Carberry, Zachary Landman, Michelle Xie, Thomas W. Feeley, John Henderson and Charles Fraser Jr.

Patient-centered outcomes measurement provides healthcare organizations with crucial information for increasing value for patients; however, organizations have struggled to obtain outcomes data from electronic health record (EHR) systems. This study describes how Texas... View Details

Keywords: Epic; Electronic Health Records; Outcomes; Value; Patient-Centered Outcomes Measurement; Value Creation; Information Technology; Health Care and Treatment; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Industry; Texas

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22 Oct 2018
News

New Health Options for Small-Business Employees

2023
Article

Dynamic HTA for Digital Health Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges for Patient-Centered Evaluation

By: Jan B. Brönneke, Annika Herr, Simon Reif and Ariel D. Stern

Germany’s 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale-Versorgung-Gesetz, or DVG) created a number of opportunities for the digital transformation of the health care delivery system. Key among these was the creation of a reimbursement pathway for patient-centered digital... View Details

Keywords: Digital Transformation; Applications and Software; Product Development; Insurance; Policy; Health Industry; Germany

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18 Oct 2016
Op-Ed

Why Business Should Invest in Community Health

participants’ health care costs by 60 percent on average over five years. Taking first steps Some businesses, especially smaller firms, may feel less ability or need to invest... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Howard Koh, and Pamela Yatsko; Health

04 May 2016
News

Every Company Is a Health Company

January 2019
Teaching Note

Pricing PatientPing

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-017. PatientPing sells a software platform that allows health care providers to receive real-time notifications (“pings”) when one of their patients is admitted to or discharged from a health-care facility. The platform facilitates... View Details

Keywords: Pricing; Health Tech; Health Technology; Sales Process; Sales Strategy; Price; Sales; Marketing Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Health Industry; United States; Massachusetts

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06 Nov 2009
News

Health Reform Paths Not Taken

For workers at firms that didn’t offer health insurance, any amount they spent on health insurance also would be tax-free. Herzlinger contends that extending the health-care tax exemption to workers would be... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Health, Social Assistance

April 2018
Case

Revitalizing the Cherokee Nation Health System

By: Tom Nicholas and Ross Bloom

Keywords: Native Americans; Healthcare Industry; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

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21 Oct 2009
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Redefining Health Care: Elizabeth Teisberg Interviewed

November 2015 (Revised October 2016)
Case

athenahealth's More Disruption Please Program

By: Robert F. Higgins and Erin Trimble

Keywords: Health Care Entrepreneurship; Health Care; Healthcare; Healthcare Industry; Healthcare Innovation; Healthcare IT; Disruptive Innovation; Disruptive Change; Health Industry; Boston

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01 Jun 2009
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Doctor Innovation—Shaking up the Health System

April 2000 (Revised July 2001)
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Oxford Health Plans (B): Crisis Strikes

By: Robert S. Huckman and Jody H. Gittell

Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. View Details

Keywords: Crisis Management; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States

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28 Mar 2014
News

Start-Up Aims to Reinvent Health Insurance

13 Sep 2022
News

‘Prices Are Wrong’: Caps on Hospital Costs in US Gain Ground

01 Feb 1997
News

Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution

produce health care or to sell health insurance; those are the roles of the consumers and providers who make up the "market." Health-care cost... View Details