News and Reviews
Redefining Health Care Named
ACHE's Book of the Year
Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg are the winners of the American College of Healthcare Executives 2007 James A. Hamilton book of the year award for Redefining Health Care.
Redefining Health Care
Elizabeth Teisberg interviewed at INSEAD.
October 21, 2009
9 minutes
Harvard Business School Profs on the Health Care Crisis
Janelle Nanos
Boston Magazine
September 29, 2011
Managing the Critical Transition from Volume to Value
Diane Shannon
Physician Executive Journal of Medical Management
May-June, 2011
Symposium puts spotlight on value in health care
2011 Innovation in HealthCare Symposium
The Boston Globe
February 6, 2011
Toward an Outcomes-Based Health Care System
James Mountford and Charlie Davie
Journal of the American Medical Association
December 1, 2010
Does Bob Master Hold the Secret to Better Health Care?
Rachel Zimmerman
CommonHealth, WBUR.org
September 9, 2010
The Multi-Stakeholder Movement For Primary Care Renewal And Reform
Paul Grundy, Kay R. Hagan, Jennie Chin Hansen, and Kevin Grumbach
Health Affairs
May 2010
A Remedy for Health Care - Innovation
The Darden Report
Spring 2010
Innovation Is Key to Health Care Shift From Chronic Disease to 'Chronic Health'
UVA Today
February 22, 2010
Why Health Reform Will Be a Danger to Passive Patients
US News & World Report
November 9, 2009
Redefining Health Care
Elizabeth Teisberg interviewed at INSEAD.
9 minutes
October 21, 2009
Connecticut Business and Industry Association Newsroom (audio)
Elizabeth Teisberg in "Business Minute" interviews.
October 19, 2009
Minute 1,
2,
3,
4,
5
Am einfachsten ist das Zählen von Toten
Interview with Elizabeth Teisberg (in German)
Tages Anzeiger
October 9, 2009
Create transformation in health care
Valinda Rutledge and Dick Wilkerson
Greenville News
August 9, 2009
Business Guru's Prescription for Healthcare (audio, 13min)
Robin Young interviews Michael Porter
WBUR's Here and Now
July 14, 2009
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
HBS Working Knowledge
July 13, 2009
Andrew Rubin interviews Michael Porter (Real audio stream, 22min)
Sirius XM Radio Health Care Connect
June 4, 2009
Doctor Innovation - Shaking up the health system
Economist Intelligence Unit
June 2009
Sparen mit multidisziplinären Teams
Der Standard
March 29, 2009
Finland Seeks Systemic Changes in Health Care
SITRA, press release
March 26, 2009
Ein Qualitätswettbewerb senkt die Kosten,
Une concurrence de qualité abaisse les coûts,
Una concorrenza qualitativa riduce i costi
Elizabeth Teisberg interviewed by Urs P. Gasche
(in German, French, and Italian)
CSS Magazin
March 2009
Immersion Experience - Value-Based Health Care Delivery
Mark Engelen
Harbus, HBS student weekly
January 26, 2009
A Team Approach to Orthopedics: Hospitals and Physicians Need to Work Together
Douglas W. Jackson, MD, Chief Medical Editor
Orthopedics Today
October 2008
A New Perspective for Improving Finnish Health Care
SITRA, the Finnish Innovation Fund
October 3, 2008
Rethinking the Role of Employers
Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg and Scott Wallace
Financial Times.com
July 3, 2008
Interview: Does Our Health System Deliver Value?
Michael E. Porter; Interview by Ted O'Callahan
Q3, A Publication of the Yale School of Management
Spring, 2008
Can an International Perspective Help Create a Value-Based Health System?
Jennifer F. Baron
Q3, A Publication of the Yale School of Management
Spring, 2008
Reshaping Health Care
Jennifer F. Baron
The New York Times
May 1, 2008
Managing Care the Right Way
Globe Editorial
The Boston Globe
March 26, 2008
Clinical Integration Provides the Key to Quality Improvement: Structure for Change
Mark C. Shields, Lee B. Sacks and Pankaj H. Patel
American Journal of Medical Quality
May/June 2008
A Valuable Roadmap for Health Care Solutions
William Snyder
Health Care News
November 1, 2007
Aspen Institute Project Targets Broader Healthcare Stewardship
press release
Aspen Institute
October 5, 2007
Managing Outcomes Helps a Children's Hospital Climb in Renown
Reed Abelson
The New York Times
September 15, 2007
'Redefining Health Care': Medical Homes Or Archipelagos To Navigate? ($)
Alain C. Enthoven, Francis J. Crosson and Stephen M. Shortell
Health Affairs
September/October 2007
Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-based Competition on Results ($)
Elizabeth Falter
Nursing Administration Quarterly
July/September 2007
Health Care Competition Redefined: Value vs. Cost ($)
Neil H. Baum and Robert A. Dowling
Urology Times
July 1, 2007
Film Offers New Talking Points in Health Care Debate
Milt Freudenheim and Liza Klaussmann
The New York Times
May 22, 2007
Quality of healthcare is the thing that counts
Andrew Huang
The Taipei Times
May 19, 2007
AMA Briefing: Fragmented Health Care System Could Take Cue From Cancer Care
Peggy Eastman
Oncology Times
April 10, 2007
Health-care players looking to protect their cut
Dan Kurland
The Charleston Gazette
April 4, 2007
Book Review: Redefining Health Care
John Goodman
Businesss Economics
April 2007
Porter Posits Healthy Reforms
The Harvard Crimson
March 21, 2007
Harvard economist proposes team approach on healthcare
John Donnelly
The Boston Globe
March 14, 2007
A New Focus for Health Care Reform: Realigning Competition Around Patient Value
American Medical Association press release
March 13, 2007
also see the referenced
JAMA article and
video from the JAMA press conference
featuring Michael Porter starting at 6min 25sec
Money Counts in Access to Health Care
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
March 13, 2007
Michael Porter Interview on Swiss Health Care Reform (in German only)
Niklaus Vontobel and Michael Maloney
Cash
February 22, 2007
Redefining Health Care Named
ACHE's Book of the Year
American College of Healthcare Executives
press release
February 14, 2007
also see HBS press release
Packaging of Health Care Is Not the Problem
John Dunn
Health Care News
February 1, 2007
Interview: Redefining Health Care in the Netherlands
Rick Nieman
RTL, Dutch Television
February 2007
Interview Video (14 minutes)
(in English after 45 second introduction)
'Four Cornerstones' Will Transform Health
Newt Gingrich and Bob Galvin
Forbes
January 31, 2007
Bill Clinton, Elizabeth Teisberg to speak at the "Global Changing Diabetes Leadership Forum"
press release
January 24, 2007
Redefining Healthcare: Is the American System Broken?
Lawrence R. Velvel, Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law, interviews Elizabeth Teisberg for the Books of Our Times program. 57 minutes.
January 15, 2007
Nicolaus Henke on Michael Porter's partial answer (free registration required)
Nicolaus Henke
Health Service Journal
December 7, 2006
Comment: Why a US management guru has vital questions for the NHS
(free registration required)
Nick Edwards
Health Service Journal
December 7, 2006
Singapore's healthcare system
moving in right direction
Hasnita A Majid
Channel News Asia
November 28, 2006
Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg on redefining value in health care ($)
authors interviewed by Alistair Davidson and Robert M. Randall
Strategy & Leadership
November 2006, vol.34 no.6 pg.44
Porter and Teisberg put health care on the CEO's agenda ($)
book review by Alistair Davidson
Strategy & Leadership
November 2006, vol.34 no.6 pg.48
"The cost and efficiency of health care is a significant environmental and competitive issue for all American companies. From the point of view of a corporate CEO, health care is a time bomb, consuming more and more resources, raising the cost of America's products, yet not delivering optimum value. Health care - with its powerful constituencies battling for advantage - does not allow would-be reformers an easy grip, much less an obvious solution. But two of the USA's best and brightest strategists present a revolutionary prospectus for health care reform."
Health Care Bundling abstract, full text
review by John C. Goodman
National Center for Policy Analysis
November 6, 2006
The Future of Health Care
Richard Smith
The Guardian
November 6, 2006
The Healthcare Crisis ¡¦Solved?
comments by: Rashi Fein, Maggie Mahar,
Andy Kessler, Uwe E. Reinhardt
The Conference Board Review
September/October 2006
Professor says health care system can be fixed
The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
October 28, 2006
The Future of Health Care
KTTC Television - Rochester, MN
October 20, 2006
Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results ($)
review by Michael S. Lauer
Journal of the American Medical Association
JAMA.2006; 296: 1660-1662.
October 4, 2006
...Redefining Health Care has the makings of a classic, one that likely will be must reading for all those interested in health care delivery. Porter and Teisberg have raised the health care systems debate to a substantially higher, and hopefully value-producing, level. For simply changing the language of the argument, we should be grateful.
Redefining Consumer-Driven Health Care
Joseph Coletti
Health Care News, The Heartland Institute
October 1, 2006
Editor's letter
Jill Rose
Health Executive
October 2006
Interview with Tony Kovner, NYU ($)
interviewed by Kyle L. Grazier
Journal of HealthCare Management
The Official Journal of the American College of Healthcare Executives
September/October 2006
An Information Prescription for Health Care's Cognitive-Disorder Problems
Thomas P. Miller
Health Affairs
September 12, 2006
Getting Your Money's Worth
(free registration req'd)
Judy Ward
Plan Sponsor
September 2006
What Health Care Needs to Be About
and
A Dose of Transparency
Penelope Lemov
Governing
Spetember 2006
Redefing Health Care
How competition can drive down costs and improve quality
Roger Thompson Q&A with Michael Porter
HBS Alumni Bulletin
September 2006
Can
This Man Fix Our Healthcare System?
A.J. Vogl
Across the Board, The Conference Board Magazine
July/August 2006
Business, Heal Health Care
BusinessWeek
August 14, 2006
Book Review: Redefining Health Care
Pharmaceutical Commerce
August 1, 2006
Also see Other Publications from the Authors.
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Outcome Measurement Language in
March 2010 U.S. Health Care Legislation
In fall 2009, Professor Michael E. Porter and health care researchers Jennifer F. Baron and Carolyn Daly had the opportunity to discuss the role of outcome measurement in health care reform with U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman and Senior Legislative Counsel Frederick Isasi. These discussions led in part to the inclusion of certain key measurement principles and action steps in the Manager's Amendment to the Senate Bill. (Please see the Amendment, beginning on page 149, or these Amendment excerpts on outcome measurement.) The final bill approved by the House of Representatives on March 21 and signed into law by President Barack Obama contains these provisions.
While the US remains far from achieving a comprehensive national measurement strategy, this language represents an important first step. Once the debate over reform legislation has concluded, it is the hope of Professor Porter and the ISC that attention can shift to this critically important topic in the interest of our nation's fiscal and physical health.
eCat Health: Electronic Medical Records and Consumer Involvement
coverage of the June '09 NEJM article (see Publications page):
Health Care Strategist: Michael Porter on Health Care Reform
Kaiser Health News: NEJM Explores The Value-Based System Approach To Health Reform
Daily Kos: When Insurance Isn't Enough: Toward a Value(s)-Based Health Care System
Washington Post Daily Dose, John Amick: Health-Care Reform Around the Web
Medicine Think: Healthcare Spending v. Quality
Health Business Blog, David E. Williams: Michael Porter gets it right
MedCity News, Mary Vanac: Toward a value-based system: Michael Porter weighs in on health care reform
Battling for Health, Raquel Billiones: New in Health Care Reform
Raising Women's Voices: Goals for health care reform
older posts:
Adam Bosworth: Aspen Institute
World Health Care Blog: Merrill Goozner --- Michael Porter on health care reform
Health Affairs:
Gail Wilensky --- Thinking Big, But Ignoring Big Obstacles
Alan Maynard --- Reinventing the Wheel
Alain C. Enthoven --- Consumers and Competition
Uwe E. Reinhardt --- Porter And Teisberg's Utopian Vision
James C. Robinson --- Let's Admit Porter and Teisberg Are (Sometimes) Right
Porter and Teisberg respond to the Health Affairs blog discussions above
Scott Shreeve: Value Driven Healthcare
GregsOpinion: "Re-inventing" Health Care
Service Design: Universal Health Care: A New Business Paradigm?, A Failing Transparency of Design Principles in Health Care?
Velvel on National Affairs: The Urgent Need For Information On The Results Of Medical Care
Peter Lucash, AllBusiness: Michael Porter on healthcare
Brewed Fresh Daily: Citizens Are the Solution, Not Government
Nick Edwards, Editor, Health Service Journal (UK):
“Redefining Health Care has caught the imagination of many of the most influential voices in NHS reform and has been occupying minds at the highest level throughout this year. ...It is a rewarding read for anyone serious about healthcare reform.”
The Economist:
“Mr Porter and Ms Teisberg have written a profound and powerful critique of America's health-care system. It deserves to be read widely. And probably will be.”
KTTV Television, Rochester, MN:
“One Harvard professor says it's time to redefine health care and Mayo Clinic is agreeing. Porter's book is helping to create a national agenda for health care reform, and Mayo Clinic is ready to be a part of that change. During the next months, the Clinic's Carleton Rider says Mayo will continue to look into the future of integrated health care and what that will mean for changes at the Clinic.”
John C. Goodman, Ph.D., President, National Center for Policy Analysis:
“Redefining Health Care is a must read for anyone interested in health policy. The authors have identified the single most important problem in health care and it is a problem health economists tend to routinely ignore. To wit: We don't bundle and price health services the way we would if the medical marketplace even remotely resembled an efficient, competitive market. ”
Michael S. Lauer, MD, The Cleveland Clinic Heart Center:
“Redefining Health Care has the makings of a classic, one that likely will be must reading for all those interested in health care delivery. Porter and Teisberg have raised the health care systems debate to a substantially higher, and hopefully value-producing, level. For simply changing the language of the argument, we should be grateful.”
Hans Hoogervorst, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport of the Netherlands:
“This book is incredibly valuable for politicians, policymakers and managers in healthcare who cannot ignore this book when talking about sustainable healthcare in the future. The book offers inspiration and guidance to help everyone involved in healthcare to improve patient value. It shows with amazing clarity how to accomplish this.”
Delos M. Cosgrove, MD, Chief Executive Officer, The Cleveland Clinic:
“Redefining Health Care presents a fresh, clear-eyed view of the problems of the
American health care system, and shows how value-based competition is the only
real solution. This bold, insightful book will stimulate every participant in
health care delivery to reexamine current strategies and practices, and achieve
vastly better results.”
Harvey V. Fineberg, MD, PhD, President, Institute of Medicine:
“Redefining Health Care is at once revolutionary and practical. Porter and
Teisberg aim to convert today’s dysfunctional health care system into one in
which value-based competition leads to better health and greater efficiency.
They argue for fundamental changes in how we think about heath care and offer
specific guidance to health care providers, health plans, suppliers, consumers,
employers, and policy makers. This book deserves to be read carefully by
everyone concerned with the future of health care in the United States.”
Charles D. Baker, President and Chief Executive Officer, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Inc.:
“This book is a major contribution—and may prove to be THE major contribution—
to the age-old debate about why so many people don’t get what they want from our
health care system. Porter and Teisberg ask and answer the simple question: why
is competition in health care failing? Their fundamental proposition—that we
have not measured what matters most and that system participants have not had to
compete on excellence and efficiency— must be embraced. The authors lay out a
practical and detailed agenda for all the major actors in the system. What are
we waiting for?”
Maureen Bisognano,
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Institute for Healthcare Improvement:
"A leader's guide for the next decade. Porter and Teisberg's book provides a new strategic perspective that will enable dramatic improvement in the quality and efficiency of patient care. This book offers powerful new ideas for practical ways to address the enormous challenges of the health care system. The insights here will rechannel the health care debate productively for years to come."
