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McKesson

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred

McKesson, a large, diversified drug distribution and health care IT company, is considering development of new business offerings to help private practice physicians remain independent. The company, with $122 billion in 2010 revenues, just made its first foray into... View Details

Keywords: Health Care Industry; Health Care Policy; Organizational Transformations; Health Services; Health Care and Treatment; Business Model; Service Operations; Change Management; Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Policy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; United States

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Cybersecurity Features of Digital Medical Devices: An Analysis of FDA Product Summaries

By: Ariel Dora Stern, William J. Gordon, Adam B. Landman and Daniel B. Kramer

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To more clearly define the landscape of digital medical devices subject to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight, this analysis leverages publicly available regulatory documents to characterise the prevalence and trends of software and... View Details

Keywords: Digital; Medicine; FDA; Health Care and Treatment; Applications and Software; Safety; Cybersecurity; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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30 May 2024
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Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

differences in response to different types of customers,” Stern says. “To the extent those exist, that means you’re not serving a certain group of customers, and you’re potentially leaving money on the table.” You Might Also Like: The FDA’s Speedy View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health

19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

integration into receiving countries. In this study, 23,800 citizens were randomly assigned to receive visits from political activists during the lead-up to the 2010 French regional elections. Treatment increased the turnout of immigrants... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

31 Mar 2023
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Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

Professor of Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, conducted the research with Katherine Baicker of the University of Chicago and Mark Shepard, associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School. Addressing the high costs of health... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health

22 Nov 2004
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Side Effects: The Case of Propecia

You are the marketing director of Propecia, a new drug for hair restoration that's about to hit the market. But the drug can only be purchased via a physician's prescription. So do you advertise directly to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Pharmaceutical

22 Aug 2005
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The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

analyzing failure benefit in two ways. First, analyzing a failed drug sometimes reveals that the drug may have a viable alternate use. For example, Pfizer's Viagra was originally designed to be a View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

25 Aug 2003
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Why IT Does Matter

Radio-frequency identification devices for grocery stores, smart cards, and automated ordering systems for hospital physicians are all examples of new process targets that technologies will soon address. In the more distant future we will see the improved creation of... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

31 Oct 2004
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Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

drugs? How frequently do physicians prescribe advertised drugs when other drugs or treatments may be equally effective? We surveyed a national probability sample of 643... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

12 Jul 2020
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Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

self-quarantine in sometimes unsafe home environments, anxiety about the virus and re-openings, and disconnection from treatment all are triggers and will contribute to substantial increases in substance use disorder (SUD) cases,... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

19 Sep 2016
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Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

disciplines, where academic research is leading to the development of a second skin that could improve drug delivery or alerting farmers and scientists on how to reduce nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural farming. Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

29 May 2001
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Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

predict a new world where drug treatments are customized to an individual's genetic makeup, and gene-based therapy can root out cancer and other diseases before they take hold in the body. The new science... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2003
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Making Biotech Work as a Business

technologies for drug discovery.) And patients with previously unmet medical needs can now get treatments that were not available before. That should be inspiring, he reminded the audience. Economic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

07 Aug 2000
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The Business of Biotech

coming of age of biotechnology. The disappearance of "blockbuster" drugs could create new management challenges for pharmaceutical companies. — Gary Pisano The prospect is exhilarating, but the road to this brave new biotech... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

08 Apr 2009
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Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

interrelated. People who have studied this industry for a long time have come up with a number of feasible ideas to get at the cost problem, including high-deductible insurance and health savings accounts. But until we make sure that the View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

26 Jun 2000
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What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

by panelist Andy Slavitt (HBS MBA '93), Founder, President and CEO of Healthallies.com, is an exchange that links patients with local health care providers who offer preferred rates. Services include everything from traditional medical procedures to alternative View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

25 May 2016
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How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

commercialization of important new drugs to the detriment of consumers. Interestingly, though, at public hearings, the AstraZeneca chief executive championed the interests of patients in opposing the proposed merger. Consumers worldwide... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

15 Jan 2018
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A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

iPhoto With billions of dollars spent on the development of precision medicine and related cancer research over the last decade, a recent partnership seeks a new way to bring these treatments to patients more quickly: through a better... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

22 May 2020
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Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

The coronavirus crisis forced health care providers to mobilize in ways few could have predicted six months ago, revealing not only the system’s weaknesses but its profound ingenuity. Within weeks, providers worldwide set up drive-through testing sites, makeshift View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

23 Mar 2003
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AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

5th Annual Africa Business Conference at Harvard Business School on March 8. Much of the debate over AIDS in Africa has surrounded the high cost of the drugs that have turned the deadly disease into one that patients in the West can now... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

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