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Germany's Digital Health Reforms in the COVID-19 Era: Lessons and Opportunities for Other Countries

By: Sara Gerke, Ariel D. Stern and Timo Minssen

Reimbursement is a key challenge for many new digital health solutions, whose importance and value have been highlighted and expanded by the current COVID-19 pandemic. Germany’s new Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale–Versorgung–Gesetz or DVG) entitles all individuals... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Reimbursement; Digital Health Reforms; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Internet and the Web; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Germany

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Economic Principles for Medicare Reform

By: Amitabh Chandra and Craig Garthwaite

In this article, we develop an economic framework for Medicare reform that highlights trade-offs that reform proposals should grapple with but often ignore. Central to our argument is a tension in administratively set prices, which may improve short-term efficiency but... View Details

Keywords: Medicare; Value-based Care; Health Care Reform; Markets In Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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01 Aug 2011
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Reforming Health Care Systems

19 Mar 2010
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Podcast on Health Care Reform

Keywords: Professor Regina Herzlinger

25 Mar 2010
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On Health Care Reform

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Health Systems

Instructor, Pasteur Institute CNAM School of Public Health (Paris, France), Mid-Career professionals from the National Institute of Cancer (INCA) View Details

Keywords: Health; Health Care; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Reform; Health Care Industry

06 Nov 2009
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Health Reform Paths Not Taken

No issues in the ongoing Congressional health-care debate have generated more heat than the so-called public option and proposed taxes on “gold-plated” health insurance plans. Conservatives view a new government-run View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Health, Social Assistance

04 Jun 2009
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Goals for Health Care Reform

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

Aligning the Nature and Management of Health Care (Harvard Business Press, 2009), explains how to create more knowledgeable, flexible, and responsive delivery organizations. “Some of the most important innovations are not technologic—they... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

08 Jan 2015
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Better path to health care reform

05 Aug 2009
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Original thinking on health reform

13 Jan 2010
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Doubts about health care reform

February 2012 (Revised June 2013)
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Moving to Universal Coverage: Health Care Reform in Massachusetts

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron

State health care reform in Massachusetts has involved a phased process, focusing first on coverage expansion and then turning to delivery system innovation and cost containment. In 2006, the state adopted an individual mandate to obtain health care coverage which,... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Business and Government Relations; Insurance; Massachusetts

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01 Mar 2010
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Fight for health care reform

06 Jul 2009
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HBS Faculty Comment on the Health Care Reform Bill

06 Jul 2009
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HBS Faculty Comment on the Health Care Reform Bill

August 2012 (Revised January 2013)
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Public Health Insurance Exchanges: The Massachusetts Experience

By: Regina Herzlinger and Jordan Bazinsky

The CEO of Tufts Health Plan, James Roosevelt, is wondering whether to offer insurance products on the Massachusetts Connector, the first U.S. exchange. He wonders if he should enter these uncharted waters at all. And, if yes, with a broad network or a narrow network... View Details

Keywords: Health Insurance Exchange; Healthcare Reform; Public Health Insurance Exchange; Decision Making; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts

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Educators

26 May 2009
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Good luck on health care reform

March 2015
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Transforming Care at UnityPoint Health – Fort Dodge

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Ashley-Kay Fryer and Morten T. Hansen

This case details the transformation of a health care delivery system, UnityPoint Health – Fort Dodge, into a Pioneer Accountable Care Organization (ACO) after the passage of health reform in the United States. The case explores in detail how the hospital CEO and staff... View Details