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Student Spotlight: 2023 HCC Co-Presidents Reflect on Their Time at HBS and the Current Health Care Systems - Blog: Health Supplement
in healthcare, which will require enormous systems change. What industry of health care are you most interested in? I will be continuing my training as a medical doctor for the next decade or so, and am interested in remaining in the care delivery space. I think the...
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- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
Kaiser [Permanente's] Dr. [Kim] Adcock, it is not enough just to know that a particular physician is making more than the acceptable number of errors [in misread x-rays]. Unless deeper analysis of the nature of the radiologists' errors is...
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by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
every medical student is now required to master. The medical school curriculum proceeds from the premise that in order to diagnose and treat disease, the would-be physician must have a firm grounding in what science (or, perhaps more...
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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
membership in the American College of Physician Executives in 2008 in recognition of her many contributions to the advancement of medical management. Rosabeth M. Kanter: Awarded an Honorary Doctoral degree by Aalborg University, Denmark,...
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- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
School, which she launched 2016 with physician and educator Priscilla Chan. “So we asked, what could we do if we started over?” Liu, who attended public school in Washington, DC, recognized from an early age that the country’s school...
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Improvement. He is the co-founder and former Chair of the California Joint Replacement Registry, and past Chair of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Council on Research and Quality. Dr. Bozic has been the recipient of the UCSF Exceptional View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
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...
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by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
they studied the three primary ways these drugs were marketed by Pfizer, Merk, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and AstraZeneca: "detailing," in which drug firm representatives personally visit physicians to sell the drug; at professional...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
reactor" in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? A: By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients' needs. Today's doctors work in a...
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- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
part of the physician's learning and socialization. The first incision is something few physicians forget. That procedure is reproduced time after time, in country after country, and provides a seminal building block of medical education...
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- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
feeling of being a novice in the organization," she says. "This is a really important problem in organizations because transference of knowledge of skills and expertise is critical to helping new employees learn." The field studies will include hospitals, where...
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- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
new study of physician offices transitioning to electronic health records (EHRs) used in managing patient care. In general, larger offices in the study that employed EHRs recorded productivity gains, but certain types of smaller practices...
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Jordan Amadio
school—it's the best training for using science to help society." To be most productive, however, Jordan believed he needed to take an additional step. "We need physician researchers who can commercialize lab advances; who can...
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Ginger Jiang
country. I was several months away from graduating medical school, but I already had a professional and ethical responsibility to help this man as best as I could. When I began the MD/MBA program five years ago, I couldn’t have foreseen how much being a View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Health IT at the Bedside
surprisingly personal twist when my mother phoned to say that my father had been admitted to our local ER with unexplained fevers and chest discomfort. We soon learned that my dad’s past records — from care that took place across several doctors’ offices and hospitals...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
volume, is titled Consumer-Driven Health Care (Jossey-Bass, 2004). What is the fundamental difference between consumer-driven and managed health care? Over two decades ago, managed care, which gives a third party control over patients’ access to View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Cooper Elected Alumni Board President
president last year. Cooper, a native of South Africa, moved to Canada 24 years ago. He and a physician partner founded Scienta Health in 2004 to focus on preventive health care.
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Henry M. Flagler
Flagler originally moved to Florida at the suggestion of a physician who believed the temperate climate would be beneficial for his ailing wife. Though his wife died shortly after the move, Flagler was enamored with the then remote state....
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Transportation
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53335 September 25, 2017 JAMA Internal Medicine The Business Case for Investing in Physician Well-Being By: Shanafelt, Tait D., Joel Goh, and Christine A. Sinsky Abstract—Importance:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
physicians are skeptical of recent innovations. Their “first do no harm” training favors a trial-and-error approach based on treating for the most likely diagnosis first, and moving on to something else if that doesn’t work. Third, View Details