Harvard Business Review on Fixing Healthcare from Inside & Out

by Harvard Business Publishing

How can management cure health care's ills?

If you need the best practices and ideas for transforming health care--but don't have time to find them--this book is for you. Here are 10 inspiring and useful perspectives, all in one place.

The HBR articles in this collection propose several

- Organizing doctors into teams

- Focusing incentives on patients' recovery

- Saving lives and dollars by designing clearer work processes

- Sharing knowledge through industry networks

- Knocking down barriers to innovation in funding, policy,

and technology

- Treating common ailments with simpler interventions

- Bridging the divide between clinicians and administrators

- Ramping up R&D productivity by returning power to scientists

Genres: Health Care, Nonfiction, Management

201 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 12, 2011

About the author

Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) is a publisher founded in 1994 as a not-for-profit, independent corporation and an affiliate of Harvard Business School (distinct from Harvard University Press), with a focus on improving business management practices. The company offers articles, books, case studies, simulations, videos, learning programs, and digital tools to organizations and subscribers.
HBP consists of three market units: Education, Corporate Learning, and Harvard Business Review Group. Their offering consists of print and digital media (Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review Press books, Harvard Business School cases), events, digital learning (Harvard ManageMentor, HMM Spark), blended learning, and campus experiences.

Reviews

[Tasya]

Filled with interesting and eye opening insight, with the main idea being collaboration and willingness to accept the disruptive change and doing major overhaul to create a more efficient (time and cost) healthcare. Can be a bit repetitive at times.

I find it interesting that some articles are from the 2000 while this book was released in 2011. Why choose really old articles though? Have they checked whether the innovation hold up and sustainable by the time of publication? It's really curious haha.

[George Mount]

Very nice overview of healthcare reform from a business point of view. Good diversity of opinions and topics.