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  • November 24, 2020
  • Article

4 Strategies to Make Telehealth Work for Elderly Patients

By: Umar Ikram, Susanna Gallani, Jose F. Figueroa and Thomas W. Feeley
As providers have ramped up their use of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, one group—the elderly—has experienced particular challenges in adopting the technologies. This article describes the strategies four innovative provider organizations have used to engage... View Details
Keywords: Telehealth; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Internet and the Web; Age; Technology Adoption; Strategy
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  • 24 Nov 2020
  • News

4 Strategies to Make Telehealth Work for Elderly Patients

  • May 2018
  • Case

Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Primary Care Plus

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Mahek A. Shah
A geriatrician in Kaiser Permanente’s Colorado region is concerned with the high and growing cost of treating the elderly population. She introduces a new care model, Primary Care Plus, using an interdisciplinary team of a primary care doctor, palliative care... View Details
Keywords: Primary Health Care; Elderly Patients; Integrated Practice Unit; Interdisciplinary Care; Health Care and Treatment; Age; Cost Management; Performance Improvement; Health Industry; United States; Colorado
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  • 01 Mar 2017
  • Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

transportation and clinical visits, but their patients end up having 45 percent lower hospitalization rates,” Kaplan says. Kaiser Permanente Colorado implemented a similar program with a high-risk elderly... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • June 11, 2021
  • Article

Addressing Demographic Disparities in Clinical Trials

By: Kathy Giusti, Richard G. Hamermesh and Mark Krasnow
Disparities in health care are not just limited to the delivery of care. They also exist in the way that clinical trials are structured. Women, people of color, and the elderly often are not adequately represented. This article offers three strategies for addressing... View Details
Keywords: Health Testing and Trials; Demographics
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Introducing LivelyHood, A Volunteer Nonprofit Founded in Response to COVID-19 - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
  • Article

Decisions about Medication Use and Cancer Screening across Age Groups in the United States

By: Kathleen M. Fairfield, Bethany S. Gerstein, Carrie A. Levin, Vickie Stringfellow, Heidi Wierman and Mary McNaughton-Collins
Objective
To describe decision process and quality for common cancer screening and medication decisions by age group.

Methods
We included 2941 respondents to a national Internet survey who made at least one decision about colorectal, breast,... View Details
Keywords: Screening; Decision Making; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials
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  • 26 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change

naturally solve problems by filling in gaps for situations they’ve never encountered, he says. Consider, for example, a doctor dealing with a disabled elderly patient in an Emergency Room, after just seeing... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • Web

Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

new relationships with payers, hospitals, and physicians to become more accountable for patient outcomes and total costs. The case describes new forms of... May 2018 HBS Case Collection Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Primary Care Plus by... View Details
  • 30 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

expect someone to be fully present, eight hours a day, when they have a three-year-old with crayons drawing on the wall, or an elderly parent who needs help navigating the stairs.” THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Jun 2018
  • Blog Post

Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship

care and is the CEO and co-founder of InfiniteMD, a telemedicine company connecting Chinese patients with US physicians for second opinions. She is a practicing Preventive Care and Occupational Medicine physician at Cambridge Health... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Ginger Jiang

patients deeply, with kindness and warmth. My patients often made this easy as they were kind, warm, and above all human. I’ll never forget the girl who wanted to get better so she could become a marine... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Turning Point: Ready or Not

small lemon tree in the graveyard where his father and uncle had been buried. His death made me realize my own mortality, but it was more of a rational response than an emotional one. My grandmother’s death felt different. Like so many other families with View Details
Keywords: reflection; life experience; leadership
  • 14 Mar 2019
  • News

The Merchant of Osaka

(MBA 1988) is cofounder and COO. She is also the founding CEO of Mediva, the company’s consulting arm. Platanus clinics share overnight resources and electronic medical records, so their combined 2,500 at-home palliative care patients... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution

transactions. Now they're requiring that the health-care system also provide convenience and information. Patients can't be patient anymore. What other market forces are at work? Major organizational... View Details
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

counterintuitive driver: the fact that in the US, pharmaceutical companies subsidize the purchase of their drugs. Medicare, the government insurer for elderly or disabled people in the US, encourages View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 15 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review

able to effectively deliver transformative therapies to patients in need. As a member of the first cohort of Harvard’s MS/MBA joint degree, I wanted to share four things you should know about this new program.” Read More How Financial Aid... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2003
  • News

Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.

uninsured, needy CML patients, guaranteeing that no one would be denied this therapy for economic reasons. On a broader front, Novartis has joined with other pharmaceutical companies to institute a comprehensive discount plan in this country and abroad that helps View Details
  • 31 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

Case 118-053 Kaiser Permanente Colorado: Primary Care Plus A gerontologist in Kaiser Permanente’s Colorado region is concerned with the high and growing cost of treating the elderly population. She introduces a new care model, Primary... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Oct 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

heterogeneity in consumer sophistication could explain the prevalence and persistence of misconduct at such firms. Misconduct is concentrated at firms with retail customers and in counties with low education, elderly populations, and high... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne