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- 21 Oct 2009
- News
Redefining Health Care: Elizabeth Teisberg Interviewed
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
higher rates in poor countries. You’ve heard of the wealth gap. Welcome to the health gap. The people who need the medicines most in the world are the least likely to receive them. “Now that we have such extraordinary capabilities, what...
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- March 2017
- Article
Variation in the Cost of Care for Primary Total Knee Arthroplasties
By: Derek A. Haas and Robert S. Kaplan
The study examined the cost variation across 29 high-volume U.S. hospitals for delivering a primary total knee arthroplasty without major complicating conditions. Hospital and physician personnel costs were calculated using time-driven activity-based costing....
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Haas, Derek A., and Robert S. Kaplan. "Variation in the Cost of Care for Primary Total Knee Arthroplasties." Arthroplasty Today 3, no. 1 (March 2017): 33–37.
- 2023
- Article
Dynamic HTA for Digital Health Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges for Patient-Centered Evaluation
By: Jan B. Brönneke, Annika Herr, Simon Reif and Ariel D. Stern
Germany’s 2019 Digital Healthcare Act (Digitale-Versorgung-Gesetz, or DVG) created a number of opportunities for the digital transformation of the health care delivery system. Key among these was the creation of a reimbursement pathway for patient-centered digital...
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Keywords:
Digital Transformation;
Applications and Software;
Product Development;
Insurance;
Policy;
Health Industry;
Germany
Brönneke, Jan B., Annika Herr, Simon Reif, and Ariel D. Stern. "Dynamic HTA for Digital Health Solutions: Opportunities and Challenges for Patient-Centered Evaluation." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 39, no. 1 (2023).
- 30 Oct 2015
- News
Can Providers and Insurers Team Up to Fix Health Insurance?
- November 2013
- Article
Learning from My Successes and from Others' Failures: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
By: D. KC, B. Staats and F. Gino
Learning from past experience is central to an organization's adaptation and survival. A key dimension of prior experience is whether an outcome was successful or unsuccessful. While empirical studies have investigated the effects of success and failure in...
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Keywords:
Healthcare;
Health Care;
Knowledge Work;
Attribution Theory;
Quality;
Success;
Medical Specialties;
Health Care and Treatment;
Failure;
Learning;
Health Industry
KC, D., B. Staats, and F. Gino. "Learning from My Successes and from Others' Failures: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery." Management Science 59, no. 11 (November 2013): 2435–2449.
- January 2014 (Revised March 2014)
- Teaching Note
Cancer Screening in Japan: Market Research and Segmentation
By: John A. Quelch
- March 2012 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and Jessica A. Hohman
The case describes two pilot projects on applying activity-based costing to measuring the cost of treating patients. It presents process maps and financial data relating to the processes used during (1) an office visit to a plastic surgeon for three different diagnoses...
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Keywords:
Health Care;
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing;
Costing;
Hospitals;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Mathematical Methods;
Health Industry
Kaplan, Robert S., Mary L. Witkowski, and Jessica A. Hohman. "Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs." Harvard Business School Case 112-086, March 2012. (Revised January 2013.)
- April 2018
- Case
Revitalizing the Cherokee Nation Health System
By: Tom Nicholas and Ross Bloom
Nicholas, Tom, and Ross Bloom. "Revitalizing the Cherokee Nation Health System." Harvard Business School Case 818-123, April 2018.
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Doctor Innovation—Shaking up the Health System
- August 1997
- Article
Preventable Adverse Drug Events in Hospitalized Patients: A Comparative Study of Intensive Care and General Care Units
By: D. J. Cullen, J. Sweitzer, D. W. Bates, E. Burdick, A. Edmondson and L. L. Leape
Cullen, D. J., J. Sweitzer, D. W. Bates, E. Burdick, A. Edmondson, and L. L. Leape. "Preventable Adverse Drug Events in Hospitalized Patients: A Comparative Study of Intensive Care and General Care Units." Critical Care Medicine 25, no. 8 (August 1997): 1289–1297.
- April 2000 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
Oxford Health Plans (B): Crisis Strikes
By: Robert S. Huckman and Jody H. Gittell
Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement.
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Huckman, Robert S., and Jody H. Gittell. "Oxford Health Plans (B): Crisis Strikes." Harvard Business School Case 800-366, April 2000. (Revised July 2001.)
- January 2, 2020
- Article
Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions
By: Nancy Dean Beaulieu, Leemore S. Dafny, B. E. Landon, Jesse Dalton, Ifedayo Kuye and J. Michael McWilliams
Background: The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital mergers have led to higher prices for commercially insured patients, but research about effects...
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Beaulieu, Nancy Dean, Leemore S. Dafny, B. E. Landon, Jesse Dalton, Ifedayo Kuye, and J. Michael McWilliams. "Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions." New England Journal of Medicine 382, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 51–59.
- 07 Dec 2015
- Video
Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, talks about inefficiency in care delivery
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
otherwise take a decade to diagnose. But NextGen Jane is building more diseases into the pipelines. “There are so many understudied areas in women’s health we could explore,” Tariyal says. Illustration by Marcos Chin The Question: “The...
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Keywords:
Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 May 2016
- News
The Real Cost of Ignoring Mental Health in the Workplace
- November 2015 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
athenahealth's More Disruption Please Program
By: Robert F. Higgins and Erin Trimble
Keywords:
Health Care Entrepreneurship;
Health Care;
Healthcare;
Healthcare Industry;
Healthcare Innovation;
Healthcare IT;
Disruptive Innovation;
Disruptive Change;
Health Industry;
Boston
Higgins, Robert F., and Erin Trimble. "athenahealth's More Disruption Please Program." Harvard Business School Case 816-060, November 2015. (Revised October 2016.)
- 02 Mar 2007
- What Do You Think?
What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?
government's role in U.S. healthcare? What do you think? To Read More: Robert H. Frank, "A Health Care Plan So Simple, Even Stephen Colbert Couldn't Simplify It," The New York Times, February 18, 2007, p....
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- May 2008 (Revised April 2018)
- Case
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Interdisciplinary Cancer Care
By: Michael E. Porter and Sachin H. Jain
In 2006, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was an internationally leading institution for cancer care, education, and research. Since 1996, it had successfully reorganized itself from a cancer hospital that was physically organized around clinical...
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Keywords:
Buildings and Facilities;
Health Disorders;
Organizational Structure;
Medical Specialties;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Value Creation;
Service Delivery;
Research;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health Industry;
Health Industry;
Texas
Porter, Michael E., and Sachin H. Jain. "The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Interdisciplinary Cancer Care." Harvard Business School Case 708-487, May 2008. (Revised April 2018.)