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- 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.
- September 2013
- Supplement
John G. Meara, Boston Children's Hospital, Measuring Costs, TDABC
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords:
Health Care;
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing;
Costing;
Hospitals;
Activity Based Costing and Management
Kaplan, Robert S. "John G. Meara, Boston Children's Hospital, Measuring Costs, TDABC." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 114-702, September 2013.
- November 2012 (Revised June 2014)
- Case
Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs (V)
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and Jessica A. Hohman
Keywords:
Health Care;
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing;
Costing;
Hospitals;
Activity Based Costing and Management
Kaplan, Robert S., Mary L. Witkowski, and Jessica A. Hohman. "Boston Children's Hospital: Measuring Patient Costs (V)." Harvard Business School Case 113-057, November 2012. (Revised June 2014.)
- 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.
- August 2020
- Article
Do Physician Incentives Increase Patient Medication Adherence?
By: Edward Kong, John Beshears, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian, Kevin Volpp, George Loewenstein, Jonathan Kolstad and James J. Choi
We conducted a randomized experiment (911 primary care practices and 8,935 nonadherent patients) to test the effect of paying physicians for increasing patient medication adherence in three drug classes: diabetes medication, antihypertensives, and statins. We measured...
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Keywords:
Health Economics;
Medication Adherence;
Physician Payment Incentives;
Primary Care;
Quality Improvement;
Health Care and Treatment;
Motivation and Incentives;
Behavior
Kong, Edward, John Beshears, David Laibson, Brigitte Madrian, Kevin Volpp, George Loewenstein, Jonathan Kolstad, and James J. Choi. "Do Physician Incentives Increase Patient Medication Adherence?" Health Services Research 55, no. 4 (August 2020): 503–511.
- January 2014 (Revised March 2014)
- Teaching Note
Cancer Screening in Japan: Market Research and Segmentation
By: John A. Quelch
- 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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Jen McFarland Flint
- October 2023
- Article
Improving Regulatory Effectiveness Through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA
By: Matthew S. Johnson, David I. Levine and Michael W. Toffel
We study how a regulator can best target inspections. Our case study is a U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) program that randomly allocated some inspections. On average, each inspection averted 2.4 serious injuries (9%) over the next five years....
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Keywords:
Safety Regulations;
Regulations;
Regulatory Enforcement;
Machine Learning Models;
Safety;
Operations;
Service Operations;
Production;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Decisions;
United States
Johnson, Matthew S., David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel. "Improving Regulatory Effectiveness Through Better Targeting: Evidence from OSHA." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 15, no. 4 (October 2023): 30–67. (Profiled in the Regulatory Review.)
- 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.
- 28 Mar 2014
- News
Start-Up Aims to Reinvent Health Insurance
- May 2021
- Article
Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders: A Matter of Health and Well-Being
By: Lisa Rotenstein, Robert S. Huckman and Christine K. Cassel
The COVID-19 crisis has forced physicians to make daily decisions that require knowledge and skills they did not acquire as part of their biomedical training. Physicians are being called upon to be both managers—able to set processes and structures—and leaders—capable...
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Rotenstein, Lisa, Robert S. Huckman, and Christine K. Cassel. "Making Doctors Effective Managers and Leaders: A Matter of Health and Well-Being." Academic Medicine 96, no. 5 (May 2021).
- September–October 2023
- Article
Prospective Evaluation of the Cost of Performing Breast Imaging Examinations Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Method: A Single Center Study
By: Aamir Ali, Jordana Phillips, Damir Ljuboja, Syed S. Shehab, Etta D. Pisano, Robert S. Kaplan and Ammar Sarwar
We use time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to measure the cost of performing breast imaging using different modalities: full-field digital mammography (FFDM), digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT), contrast-enhanced mammography (CEM), US and MRI exams, and...
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Keywords:
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing;
Health Care;
Breast Cancer;
Health Care and Treatment;
Cost;
Cost Accounting;
Health Industry
Ali, Aamir, Jordana Phillips, Damir Ljuboja, Syed S. Shehab, Etta D. Pisano, Robert S. Kaplan, and Ammar Sarwar. "Prospective Evaluation of the Cost of Performing Breast Imaging Examinations Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing Method: A Single Center Study." Journal of Breast Imaging 5, no. 5 (September–October 2023): 546–554.
- 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.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Luck of the Draw: The Causal Effect of Physicians on Birth Outcomes
By: Arlen Guarin, Christian Posso, Estefania Saravia and Jorge Tamayo
Identifying the effect of physicians’ skills on health outcomes is a challenging task due to the nonrandom sorting between physicians and hospitals. We overcome this challenge by exploiting a Colombian government program that randomly assigned 2,126 physicians to 618...
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Keywords:
Physicians' Health Skills;
Health Birth Outcomes;
Birthing Outcomes;
Experimental Evidence;
Health Care and Treatment;
Competency and Skills;
Outcome or Result;
Health Industry;
Colombia
Guarin, Arlen, Christian Posso, Estefania Saravia, and Jorge Tamayo. "The Luck of the Draw: The Causal Effect of Physicians on Birth Outcomes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-015, February 2021. (Revised November 2021.)
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Health Industry Alumni Convene for Conference
Current issues in health care; ranging from finance and patients' rights to genomics and personalized medicine; were among the subjects discussed last November at the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association's...
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- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
Foundation shows how the unhealthiness of an industry’s workers correlates closely with the unhealthiness of the communities in which those workers and their families reside. Companies that invest in community health have the potential to...
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- October 2017
- Article
Progress In Interoperability: Measuring US Hospitals' Engagement In Sharing Patient Data
By: A Jay Holmgren, Vaishali Patel and Julia Adler-Milstein
Achieving an interoperable health care system remains a top US policy priority. Despite substantial efforts to encourage interoperability, the first set of national data in 2014 suggested that hospitals’ engagement levels were low. With 2015 data now available, we...
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Keywords:
Health;
Technology;
Electronic Health Records;
Health Care and Treatment;
Data and Data Sets;
Technology Networks;
Policy;
United States
Holmgren, A Jay, Vaishali Patel, and Julia Adler-Milstein. "Progress In Interoperability: Measuring US Hospitals' Engagement In Sharing Patient Data." Health Affairs 36, no. 10 (October 2017): 1820–1827.
- 05 May 2016
- News
The Real Cost of Ignoring Mental Health in the Workplace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
use expensive technology, which many people cite as the reason for high U.S. health-care costs? Actually,the opposite is true: advances in medical technology have made health care cheaper and better - and...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
help achieve better access to care and a lower cost of care. And employers are embracing telemedicine as a way to provide employees convenient health care at a lower cost for...
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