Research - Health Care - Harvard Business School

01 Jul 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Social Interactions in Pandemics: Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity

by Laura Alfaro, Ester Faia, Nora Lamersdorf, and Farzad Saidi

                          An analysis of 89 cities worldwide shows that mobility responds to infection risk, altruism, and reciprocity. Correcting the SIR model to account for this behavior shows that a balanced approach involving stringency measures, in respect of human dignity, and...

Article

Quantifying the Benefits from a Care Coordination Program for Tracheostomy Placement in Neonates

By: Christen Caloway, Alisa Yamasaki, Kevin M. Callans, Mahek Shah, Robert S. Kaplan and Christopher Hartnick

Value-based care models are becoming instrumental in structuring clinical care delivery in our healthcare climate. Our objective was to determine the value associated with implementation of a Family-Centered Care Coordination (FCCC) program for neonates undergoing...

July–September 2020
Article

Innovation Contest: Effect of Perceived Support for Learning on Participation

By: Olivia Jung, Andrea Blasco and Karim R. Lakhani

Background: Frontline staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff ideas. However, the success of the contest...

July 2020
Article

Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos and John Van Reenen

We investigate the link between hospital performance and managerial education by collecting a large database of management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities offering both medical education...

2020
Working Paper

Third-Generation Cephalosporins: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances:

By: Amar Bhide, Srikant Datar and Katherine Stebbins

Cephalosporins have played an under-appreciated role in treating deadly infections. Three generations of these antibiotics helped cut the rate of infections in patients recovering from operations in hospitals by more than half between the 1960s and 1990s. In 1986, just...

2020
Working Paper

Tamoxifen: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances

By: Amar Bhide, Srikant Datar and Katherine Stebbins

Tamoxifen is considered a “gold standard” treatment for millions of breast cancer patients. In 1985, twelve years after Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), had first introduced tamoxifen in the United Kingdom (UK), the World Health Organization (WHO) designated it an...

30 Jun 2020
News

Bipartisan Tax-Free Solution To Health Care Financing: Coupling HRAs With A Public Option

By: Regina Herzlinger

                          A combination of health insurance initiatives by the presumptive 2020 Democratic and Republican presidential nominees could expand health care coverage and significantly reduce costs, without raising taxes. Along the way, the combination could revitalize private plans.

June 29, 2020
Article

Evaluation of Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Integration with Hospital Electronic Health Records by US County-Level Opioid Prescribing Rates

By: A Jay Holmgren and Nate Apathy

Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) have become a widely embraced policy solution to the opioid epidemic in the US. PDMPs offer prescribers a comprehensive view of patients’ controlled substance prescription history and can be used to monitor and reduce...

29 Jun 2020
News

On Track: Health Care, Patient Data, and Provider Performance

Re: Vincent Pons

                          Biometric tracking increased the likelihood that patients adhered to recommended tuberculosis treatment, improved health worker attendance, and reduced misreporting of patient data by health workers.

Forthcoming
Article

A History of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs in the United States: Political Appeal and Public Health Efficacy

By: A Jay Holmgren, Alyssa Botelho and Allan M Brandt

Prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMPs) have become a widely embraced policy to address the US opioid crisis. Despite mixed scientific evidence on their effectiveness at improving health and reducing overdose deaths, 49 states and Washington, DC have adopted...

17 Jun 2020
News

Assessing the Value of Pediatric Aerodigestive Care

By: Robert Kaplan

                          Treatment of aerodigestive disorders can exhaust and frustrate young patients and families. A consortium of hospitals that provide pediatric aerodigestive care found that specific value-based care approaches improve health outcomes and costs.

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

by Rachel Layne

                          Liberia trains community workers to help medical professionals on the front lines of disease control, says Brian Trelstad. Could the model work elsewhere?