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- June 2014 (Revised November 2016)
- Case
Access Health CT: Marketing Affordable Care (A)
By: John A. Quelch and Michael Norris
At the close of open-enrollment in March of 2014, Kevin Counihan, CEO of Access Health CT, Connecticut's state health insurance exchange, stops to consider the success it has experienced so far and think about how to ensure its long-term sustainability. View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Industry; Health Care Policy; Public Health Insurance Exchange; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Connecticut
Quelch, John A., and Michael Norris. "Access Health CT: Marketing Affordable Care (A)." Harvard Business School Case 514-119, June 2014. (Revised November 2016.) (Title updated to reflect publication of (B) case.)
- November 10, 2020
- Article
Value-Based Health Care in Four Different Health Care Systems
By: Mjåset Christer, Umar Ikram, Navraj S. Nagra and Thomas W. Feeley
Health care systems across the world have increasingly embraced a value-based health care (VBHC) agenda. They do so for different reasons, using different foundations, and variations on the tools and tactics to effect their strategic goals. The role of governments,... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Comparative Analysis; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Global Range; Performance Improvement
Christer, Mjåset, Umar Ikram, Navraj S. Nagra, and Thomas W. Feeley. "Value-Based Health Care in Four Different Health Care Systems." NEJM Catalyst (November 10, 2020).
- Blog Post
Innovation in Health Care Education: A Call to Action
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Vasant Kumar, Kevin Schulman and Karen Staman
Health care administration educators are at a crossroads: the health care sector is rife with inefficiencies, erratic quality, unequal access, and sky-high costs, complex problems which call for innovative solutions, and yet, according to our content analysis of top... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Education; Education; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., Vasant Kumar, Kevin Schulman, and Karen Staman. "Innovation in Health Care Education: A Call to Action." Health Affairs Blog (January 29, 2015). http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/01/29/innovation-in-health-care-education-a-call-to-action/.
- 24 Jan 2014
- Other Presentation
Value Based Health Care Delivery
According to Harvard professor Michael Porter, health care reform is proving to be one of the defining issues of the 21st century, both in the United States and throughout the world. Costs are exploding even in single-payer systems driven by aging populations and... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Value Based Health Care Delivery." Harvard Kennedy School, Center for Public Leadership, Cambridge, MA, January 24, 2014.
- June 2018
- Supplement
Amil and the Health Care System in Brazil (B)
By: Regina Herzlinger, Ana Maria Malik, Ruth Costas and Priscilla Zogbi
Brazilian Managed Care Organization Amil faces a series of challenges while trying to redefine the terms of its relationship with hospitals and clinics and to implement a new health care model based on primary care and family medicine. View Details
- 18 Apr 2016 - 19 Apr 2016
- Other Presentation
Creating Shared Value in Health Care
The overall purpose of the conference was to inspire CEOs to become more aware of their public health footprint, how they can improve the sustainability of their products and health of their workforce and their untapped power to influence change and progress in the... View Details
Keywords: Society; Health Care; Community Impact; Shared Value; Value Creation; Organizations; Civil Society or Community; Health Care and Treatment; Business and Community Relations
Porter, Michael E. "Creating Shared Value in Health Care." Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business, Harvard Business School and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Boston, MA, April 18–19, 2016.
- May 2020
- Article
Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education
By: Jessica N. Holtzman, Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert and Jennifer Kasper
Problem:
Value-based health care (VBHC) is an innovative framework for redesigning care delivery to achieve better outcomes for patients and reduce cost; however, providing students with the skills to understand and engage with these topics is a challenge to... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Higher Education; Curriculum and Courses
Holtzman, Jessica N., Bhushan R. Deshpande, Jessica C. Stuart, Thomas W. Feeley, Mary Witkowski, Edward M. Hundert, and Jennifer Kasper. "Value-Based Health Care in Undergraduate Medical Education." Academic Medicine 95, no. 5 (May 2020): 740–743.
- Article
The Implications of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act on Cancer Care Delivery
By: Heidi W. Albright, Mark Moreno, Thomas W. Feeley, Ronald Walters, Marc Samuels, Alissa Pereira and Thomas W. Burke
In March 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act. This legislation attempts to address cost control and improve the quality of healthcare in the United States. Cancer is a... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Policy; Health Care; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Cancer Care Services; Health; Law; Quality; Health Industry; North and Central America
Albright, Heidi W., Mark Moreno, Thomas W. Feeley, Ronald Walters, Marc Samuels, Alissa Pereira, and Thomas W. Burke. "The Implications of the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act on Cancer Care Delivery." Cancer 117, no. 8 (April 15, 2011): 1564–1574.
- February 2015
- Background Note
A Note on the Affordable Care Act and the U.S. Health Care System
By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris
This note provides an overview of the U.S. health care system as it stood in 2014, including an overview of hospitals, doctors, insurance companies, and other health care providers. It also discusses the major political actions on health care in the 20th century,... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Policy; Political Process; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States
Bower, Joseph L., and Michael Norris. "A Note on the Affordable Care Act and the U.S. Health Care System." Harvard Business School Background Note 315-031, January 2015.
- March 9, 2021
- Article
Addressing Consolidation in Health Care Markets
By: Leemore S. Dafny
This Viewpoint proposes three steps the Biden administration can take to slow consolidation within health care, which has been shown to raise costs without improving service or quality: better fund federal antitrust enforcement agencies; appoint agency heads committed... View Details
Keywords: Antitrust Issues And Policies; Health Care and Treatment; Markets; Consolidation; Competition; Government Administration
Dafny, Leemore S. "Addressing Consolidation in Health Care Markets." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 325, no. 10 (March 9, 2021): 927–928.
- Blog Post
Why Economic Conservatives Should Support the Individual Mandate in Health Care
Although many conservatives are gnashing their teeth about the Supreme Court's upholding the individual mandate, had it not been upheld, their worst nightmares would have occurred: government would have required hundreds of billions in additional taxes to pay for... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Industry; Health Insurance; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Why Economic Conservatives Should Support the Individual Mandate in Health Care." Huffington Post, The Blog (June 29, 2012). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/regina-e-herzlinger/health-insurance-market-mandate_b_1637762.html.
- March 2015
- Case
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
Keywords: ACO; Health Care; Health Care Industry; Health Reform; Change Leadership; Change Management; Coordination; Health Care and Treatment; Leading Change; Health Industry; United States
Edmondson, Amy C., Ashley-Kay Fryer, and Morten T. Hansen. "Transforming Care at UnityPoint Health – Fort Dodge." Harvard Business School Case 615-052, March 2015.
- February 2023
- Article
Maintaining Health Care Innovations After the Pandemic
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Barak D. Richman and Kevin A. Schulman
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the worst failings of the health care system, but it also stimulated a flurry of innovations that could lead to a much-improved delivery system. These were innovations that were born out of necessity: telemedicine access and use... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Industry; Health Care Outcomes; Innovation; Innovation In Healthcare Delivery; COVID; COVID-19 Pandemic; Pandemics; Telemedicine; Telehealth; Ambulatory Care; Vaccines; Innovation and Invention; Change; Health Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E., Barak D. Richman, and Kevin A. Schulman. "Maintaining Health Care Innovations After the Pandemic." e225404. JAMA Health Forum 4, no. 2 (February 2023).
Addressing Consolidation in Health Care Markets
This JAMA Viewpoint proposes three steps the Biden administration can take to slow consolidation within health care, which has been shown to raise costs without improving service or quality: better fund federal antitrust enforcement agencies; appoint agency heads... View Details
- May 2014
- Case
Health Care Accountability: Examples in Cancer Treatment
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
This case is designed to support a discussion of the importance of outcomes evidence in empowering the public to make better health care decisions, the desired level of transparency and accountability for health care providers, and the issues with current measuring and... View Details
Keywords: Accountability; Health Care; Cancer; Cancer Treatment; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Cancer Treatment Centers Of America; Vantage Oncology; Radiology; Risk Adjustment; Treatment Outcomes; Health Care Outcomes; Prostate Cancer; Transparency; Health Care and Treatment; Risk Management; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; United States
- 2013
- White Paper
Benchmarks For Confronting The Challenges For Innovation In Health Care With A Modern Curriculum: 21st-Century Health Care Management Education: Confronting Challenges for Innovation with a Modern Curriculum
21st-Century Health Care Management Education:
Confronting Challenges for Innovation
with a Modern Curriculum View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Benchmarks For Confronting The Challenges For Innovation In Health Care With A Modern Curriculum: 21st-Century Health Care Management Education: Confronting Challenges for Innovation with a Modern Curriculum." White Paper Series, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, January 2013.
- Blog Post
Health Care Transparency: The Fox Is Guarding the Chicken Coop in Washington Again
Now that more people can shop directly for their own health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, they have been transformed from potential patients to consumers, and like any other consumers of goods or services, they want to know if what they're buying is any... View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Health Care Transparency: The Fox Is Guarding the Chicken Coop in Washington Again." Huffington Post, The Blog (March 24, 2014). http://www.huffingtonpost.com/regina-e-herzlinger/health-care-transparency_b_5022531.html.
- Teaching Interest
Transforming Health Care Delivery - MBA Field Course
At the root of the transformation occurring in the health care industry-both in the United States and internationally-is the fundamental challenge of improving clinical outcomes while controlling costs. Addressing this challenge will require dramatic improvements... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Delivery
- September 2014 (Revised January 2017)
- Teaching Note
Access Health CT: Marketing Affordable Care (A) & (B)
By: John A. Quelch
- May–June 2020
- Article
The Agenda for the Next Generation of Health Care Information Technology
By: Thomas W. Feeley, Zachary Landman and Michael E. Porter
As the diffusion of value-based health care efforts accelerates globally, the need for interoperable information technology systems that support value-based care is essential. Such systems are needed to facilitate dramatic improvements in patient outcomes and... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Integration; Performance Improvement; Performance Efficiency
Feeley, Thomas W., Zachary Landman, and Michael E. Porter. "The Agenda for the Next Generation of Health Care Information Technology." NEJM Catalyst Innovations in Care Delivery 1, no. 3 (May–June 2020).