Health Care - Publications - Faculty & Research

August 2010 (Revised March 2012)
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The UCLA Medical Center: Kidney Transplantation

By: Michael E. Porter, Jennifer F Baron, Jacob Mathew Chacko and Robin Jian Tang

In 2010, organ transplantation remained among the few sets of medical conditions in the U.S. for which bundled payments were a dominant reimbursement model, and for which patient health outcomes were universally measured and reported. In 1986, UCLA Medical Center was... View Details

Keywords: Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Competitive Strategy; Integration; Health Industry; California

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26 Mar 2014
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How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

23 Sep 2014
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What Role Do Corporations Have in Society?

06 Jan 2015
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Elaine Goodman - Making A Difference

08 Sep 2015
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What Are a Hospital’s Costs? Utah System Is Trying to Learn

23 Oct 2015
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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

15 Jun 2015
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Target to sell its drugstores to CVS for $1.9b

The New Negotiation Over Job Benefits and Perks in post-Covid Hybrid Work

As organizations consider what a return to the office looks like, some employees say they would be willing to forgo traditional perks like health care and pay for access to office space. View Details

24 Aug 2016
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Can Obamacare Be Saved?

07 Jun 2014
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Kyle Schultz - Making A Difference

17 Jun 2019
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Cure All

20 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

Outcome measures top the list, with 60% of respondents saying they are extremely important. This survey suggests that many in health care see value-based reimbursement as a real solution to the nation’s... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Oct 2016
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Undermining Value-Based Purchasing — Lessons from the Pharmaceutical Industry

March 2013
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Redesigning Primary Care: A Strategic Vision to Improve Value by Organizing Around Patients' Needs

By: Michael E. Porter, Erika A. Pabo and Thomas H. Lee

Primary care in the United States currently struggles to attract new physicians and to garner investments in infrastructure required to meet patients' needs. We believe that the absence of a robust overall strategy for the entire spectrum of primary care is a... View Details

Keywords: Health

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Adding Value by Talking More

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Derek A. Haas and Jonathan Warsh

The prevailing fee-for-service payment model has led health care administrators and physician practices to impose severe constraints on the time physicians spend talking, for which they are reimbursed poorly or not at all. New value-based reimbursement models, however,... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Cost Management; Health Care and Treatment; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Industry

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06 Jun 2018
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Liz Kwo, Blavatnik Fellow 2018-2019

24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017

Yoshimi Anzai, Marta E. Heilbrun, Derek Haas, Luca Boi, Kirk Moshre, Satoshi Minoshima, and Vivian S. Lee Abstract—The lack of understanding the true costs (not charges) of delivering health care services... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 2020
Supplement

Luvo (B)

By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred

This case, a follow on to HBS No. 517-049 "Luvo," provides a brief look at changes that have occurred at Luvo, now called Performance Kitchen, since the timing of the first case (mid-2016). Set in January 2020, “Luvo (B)” touches on developments such as the company's... View Details