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Are All Certified EHRs Created Equal? Assessing the Relationship between EHR Vendor and Hospital Meaningful Use Performance

By: A Jay Holmgren, Julia Adler-Milstein and Jeffrey McCullough

Objective The federal electronic health record (EHR) certification process was intended to ensure a baseline level of system quality and the ability to support meaningful use criteria. We sought to assess whether there was variation across EHR vendors in the degree to...

11 May 2018
News

From HBS to Saving Lives—an MBA Student’s Venture to Help People Breathe

Re: Matt Segneri (MBA 2010)
Hamza Khan (MBA  2019)

                          Last month, Harvard Business School (HBS) announced the winners of its 21st annual New Venture Competition (NVC), which has attracted more than 5,000 participants and awarded more than $2 million in cash prizes to student and alumni startups over the past two decades....

09 May 2018
Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

by Carmen Nobel

                          Basic tweaks to the schedules of food safety inspectors could prevent millions of foodborne illnesses, according to new behavioral science research by Maria Ibáñez and Michael Toffel.

08 May 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

Sean Silverthorne

                          We prefer advice given by machines In a series of experiments, Jennifer M. Logg and colleagues show that, in many cases, humans prefer advice given by computer algorithms than by people. Algorithm Appreciation: People Prefer Algorithmic to Human Judgment. The nurse who...

19 Apr 2018
Video

DynamiCare Health Wins 2018 New Venture Competition Alumni Track

                      
                          DynamiCare Health is a digital platform for monitoring and rewarding recovery from addiction. Alumnus: Eric Gastfriend (MBA 2015), CEO, Region: New England.

17 Apr 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Digital Innovation with High Costs of Entry: Evidence from Software-Driven Medical Devices

by Cirrus Foroughi and Ariel Dora Stern

                          Although technology shifts often allow new entrants to edge into a market, established firms seem to be maintaining leadership in the medical devices industry, where software integration is increasingly important.

28 Mar 2018
News

Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

By: Robert Kaplan

                          Nearly 800 digital health startups were funded in 2017, an all-time high. Each of the new companies offers the hope of transforming the performance of the U.S. health care system. The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital...

March 2018
Teaching Material

Improving Access at VA

By: Ryan W. Buell and Robert S. Huckman

In 2015, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) ran the largest healthcare system in the United States, with over 1,700 sites of care that served nearly 9 million veterans. One year earlier, a scandal had erupted over a cover-up of the excessive wait times veterans...

March 2018
Teaching Material

Improving Access at VA

By: Ryan W. Buell and Robert S. Huckman

March 2018
Case

Sandra Brown Goes Digital (A): The Promise and Perils of Social Movements in a Healthcare Company

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

As a middle manager at a biotechnology company, Sandra Brown harnessed digital tools and social media to engage others and build campaigns for change in the company. This case follows her career at the company, and describes the challenges she faced as a change agent,...

March 2018
Teaching Material

Sandra Brown Goes Digital (B): The Commitment Decision

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

Sandra Brown, a middle manager at a biotech company who has led internal and external movements for change over the last few years, faces a decision. Whether to continue to work for change at the company, or move on to pursue new opportunities elsewhere, where her new...

March 2018
Teaching Material

Sandra Brown Goes Digital (C): Raising Quality in a Healthcare Company

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

Using digital and social media tools and lessons learned from prior change campaigns as a middle manager in a large biotech company, Sandra Brown continued in a new role in the quality division, engaging staff in a quality movement at the company. She had found a new...