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- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
encouraged and instructed teens how to safely dispose of unused prescription medications in their homes. “Several thousand teens participated online or watched replays,” Langford says. SUD treatment providers are also searching for ways to alleviate barriers to View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
However, if you're Fitbit or any of the other tracking and monitoring devices on the market today, you should be very concerned. The Apple Watch claims to render everything in these View Details
- 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
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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
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
performance, most investors have found it easier to vote "with their feet" by selling shares, rather than making formal complaints. Large shareholders, however, have stronger incentives to monitor management. The conventional... View Details
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
Biomedical: Making Pigs Fly Richard G. Hamermesh, Lauren Barley, and Ginger L. GrahamHarvard Business School Case 809-051 Proteus is a healthcare start-up that has developed technology to embed electronics for computing and sensing in existing medical View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
Clinic’s warfarin anticoagulation clinic. The study measured the personnel and supplies costs to monitor and manage anticoagulation therapy for 5,526 patients. Results: The cost of warfarin management for View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
remote monitoring service for cardiac device patients, which hit the market well before 2010 (the FDA approved it in January 2002). It was only by thinking in terms of "reinvention," says George,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
There is a market for everything—even dead bodies. Medical students use cadavers to gain experience, and their future patients are better off for it. Traditionally, cadavers have been obtained through university programs, but now... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
the recent crisis the insured bonds have become significantly less liquid than uninsured municipal debt. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-051.pdf The Learning Effects of Monitoring Authors:Dennis Campbell, Marc... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical practitioners, but with the widespread adoption of electronic medical records and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23
(mHealth) used networked devices to distribute or collect medical information from patients and/or medical personnel. Given its low cost and broad reach, many wondered if and how mHealth could help solve the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
were longer when physicians were assigned patients under a pooled queuing system, compared to when each physician operated under a dedicated queuing system. The dedicated queuing system resulted in a 10% decrease in LOS-a 32-minute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
patterns and reduce your monitoring staff by 25 percent, but it’s better to explain how the public will get through rush-hour faster and how they will be able to pick up their kids more quickly,” says Weiss. In addition, he says, “city... View Details
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
of students, the researchers surmised it may dampen innovation among competitive companies. To test that hypothesis, McDonald, Pahnke, Hallen and Wang looked at close to 200 medical device startups that developed products for minimally... View Details
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
likely to leave?” Yet, at the same time, Polzer notes that people analytics could also be used in more worrisome ways, raising concerns about employers that monitor every keystroke in an attempt to control and micromanage employee... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
There's a classic cartoon plot device that represents a struggle with temptation. A tiny angel pops up on the conflicted character's left shoulder, urging him to follow the path of righteousness. A tiny devil sits on his right shoulder,... View Details