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How Medical Records Can Close the Information Gap in Patient Care
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Do Health Apps Really Make Us Healthier?
Health care and treatment ResearchResearch shows they do, but how health care providers should use them isn’t quite so clear. -
How AI Could Help Doctors Reduce Maternal Mortality
Organizational Development ResearchSixty percent of maternal deaths in the United States are preventable. -
Why Physicians Resist Using Algorithm-Based Apps
Technology and analytics ResearchA study of physicians in the UK identified four reasons. -
How to Measure the Value of Virtual Health Care
Sales & Marketing ResearchA framework to help policymakers, insurers, and providers consider how telehealth fits into their future. -
How One Health System Got Rid of Bureaucratic Busywork
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Why Health Care May Finally Be Ready for Big Data
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleLack of standardization has held the sector back. -
How to Get Surgeons to Make Cost-Effective Decisions Without Jeopardizing Care
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Research: When Leaders Disclose a Chronic Illness at Work
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To Fix Health Care, Ask the Right Questions
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIf people want to fix health care in the U.S., they need to set aside the prevailing myths that the system is broken or just needs to become more competitive... -
Amazon’s Foray into Primary Care Won’t Be Easy
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A 3-Step Strategy to Support the New U.S. Mask Mandate
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How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleU.S. health care costs currently exceed 17% of GDP and continue to rise. One fundamental reason that providers are unable to reverse the trend is that... -
Managing the Most Expensive Patients
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleDiscussions about reining in health care costs invariably turn to the sickest 5% of the population, who account for 50% of all health care spending. Most... -
Better Ways to Support a Colleague with Breast Cancer
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How AI Could Help Reduce Inequities in Health Care
Organizational Development Digital ArticleProviders are already using new tools to offer better care to more people. -
The Telehealth Era Is Just Beginning
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleContrary to what many people think, virtual health care, also known as telemedicine or telehealth, is much more than a cheap digital knockoff of in-person... -
A Simple Way to Identify Patients Who Need Tech Support for Telemedicine
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Employers Can Do More to Advance Health Equity
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleCovid-19 exposed wide inequities in health in the United States and around the world. But health disparities persisted long before the pandemic. In this... -
Should You Tell a Prospective Employer About Your Caregiving Responsibilities?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThree strategies to help you make the judgment call.
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Employee Health
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Electronic Cigarettes in the EU: The Political Economy of Product Regulation
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details You are the CEO of an e-cigarette company that has just been acquired by a major tobacco company. Your company operates in the European market. The July... -
Inciting a Computer Revolution in Health Care: Implementing the Health Information Technology Act
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case, ideal for strategic leadership classes, poses the question: given the ambitious goals of the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic... -
Deaconess-Glover Hospital (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Chronicles the initial efforts to teach a health care organization to manage itself according to the principles of the Toyota Production System (TPS).... -
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (Abridged)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 2006, the Cleveland Clinic and Mubadala Investment Company partnered with a bold ambition to deliver world class healthcare in the United Arab Emirates.... -
Patient Room of the Future: User-Oriented Innovation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2014, the Patient Room of the Future (PRoF) was the largest European open innovation consortium in the healthcare sector. Established in 2009 by a... -
The Affordable Care Act (I): The Supreme Court
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In the spring of 2012, the Supreme Court hears arguments and releases its decision on the constitutionality of the ACA. -
Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) has expanded into a multi-specialty health city in Bangalore and has grown to twelve locations across India. The hospital plans... -
Rough Seas for ChenMed (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is looming. Gordon Chen, MD, the chief medical officer of ChenMed, a family-owned company committed to delivering... -
Still A Long Way to Go: A Case for Stem Cell Technology
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details There are few industries in which the effects of technological innovation be seen as clearly as they can in the healthcare industry. Developments in devices,... -
Electronic Medical Records System Implementation at Stanford Hospital and Clinics
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details In 2005, Stanford Hospital and Clinics (SHC) was internationally recognized as a leading medical institution in terms of its clinical capabilities and... -
healthymagination at GE (in 2011)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Jeffrey Immelt started his tenure as General Electric's CEO in what would be called the "Decade from Hell". It started in 2001 with an economic depression... -
GE in India: Changing Healthcare
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details GE Healthcare was on a continuous lookout for investing into new and innovative super value products for the Bottom of the Pyramid markets in India. After... -
Note on Mobile HealthCare
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Delivering health care to the global population was a challenge. Health care costs accounted for ten percent of world GDP by 2013. In the U.S., health... -
Humana (B) - Strategy Execution
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details After Humana debuted its new pillar strategy focused on driving integration across members' health care experiences, feedback from investors in private... -
HealthCo
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case follows the decision of two Stanford Graduate School of Business classmates, Heather Fernandez and Daniele Farnedi, to start a company together.... -
Cancer Treatment Centers of America: Scaling the Mother Standard of Care
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The CEO of a private and growing national network of specialty care hospitals focusing on advanced-stage and complex cancer treatments reflects on the... -
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals in 2009: Transformation at the Site Level (B)
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Accretive Health
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Mary Tolan, CEO Accretive Health, examines whether to expand the company's operations in hospital revenue cycle management into the field of Total Cost... -
Fighting the Battle of the Bulge - Evaluating Do Good/Do Well Innovations in Morbid Obesity Treatment
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details What can Dr. Dean Ornish learn from the successes and failures of his competitors in ameliorating morbid obesity to create a business model that will...
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Employee Health
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Electronic Cigarettes in the EU: The Political Economy of Product Regulation
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details You are the CEO of an e-cigarette company that has just been acquired by a major tobacco company. Your company operates in the European market. The July... -
How Medical Records Can Close the Information Gap in Patient Care
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleNew services are using research data and anonymized medical records to identify ways to treat conditions that lack care guidelines. -
Inciting a Computer Revolution in Health Care: Implementing the Health Information Technology Act
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case, ideal for strategic leadership classes, poses the question: given the ambitious goals of the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic... -
Deaconess-Glover Hospital (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Chronicles the initial efforts to teach a health care organization to manage itself according to the principles of the Toyota Production System (TPS).... -
Do Health Apps Really Make Us Healthier?
Health care and treatment ResearchResearch shows they do, but how health care providers should use them isn’t quite so clear. -
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (Abridged)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 2006, the Cleveland Clinic and Mubadala Investment Company partnered with a bold ambition to deliver world class healthcare in the United Arab Emirates.... -
Patient Room of the Future: User-Oriented Innovation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2014, the Patient Room of the Future (PRoF) was the largest European open innovation consortium in the healthcare sector. Established in 2009 by a... -
The Affordable Care Act (I): The Supreme Court
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In the spring of 2012, the Supreme Court hears arguments and releases its decision on the constitutionality of the ACA. -
Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital: Cardiac Care for the Poor (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) has expanded into a multi-specialty health city in Bangalore and has grown to twelve locations across India. The hospital plans...