Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Practice managers can more efficiently and effectively use their providers to meet the needs of their patient base. But even well short of centralization, individual health systems can draw on the Army’s experience to improve precision of mental healthcare. Army, the U.S. Department of Defense, or the U.S.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Improving hospital operational efficiency through data science boils down to applying predictive analytics to improve planning and execution of key care-delivery processes, chief among them resource utilization (including infusion chairs, operating rooms, imaging equipment, and inpatient beds), staff schedules, and patient admittance and discharge.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 19, 2018

A lot of money has been spent on information technology in health care with little to show for it. It takes more design time to create a care model that builds in quality and efficiency, but without that work upfront, the technology doesn’t matter and, in fact, only increases costs. ilbusca/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

This same mistake-proofing process and technology embedded in the electronic medical record (EMR) can move us a great distance toward safer, higher quality, and more affordable health care. Information technology has come late to health care delivery.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Modest reductions in the cost of borrowing and in supply costs achieved in mergers are often washed out by higher executive compensation, more layers of management, and information technology outlays, leading to higher, rather than lower, operating expenses.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. The Partners HealthCare System was already sophisticated electronically.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2016

This will help doctors make better decisions based on up-to-date knowledge in a time efficient manner. Build a learning medical information ecosystem. Through better connectivity, information technology is improving the practice of medicine as never before. The path forward is clear.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

Leverage Technology. SCPMG invested in information technologies that allowed patients to schedule visits from mobile apps, access online personalized health care plans (e.g., This enables them to review the work quickly and efficiently and follow up on any flagged issues. the steps prior to a kidney transplant).

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Harvard Business

JUNE 1, 2017

The technology can record transactions between two parties efficiently and in a verifiable and permanent way. Public and private payers are discussing the merits of issuing chip cards to beneficiaries to expedite patient identification and eligibility verification. Experiment with blockchain.

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

Thus, as the population ages, health care services will naturally expand, as will the pressure to find efficient ways to deliver those services. Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications.

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