WEBINARS

To facilitate the discussion of ways to improve healthcare, the Harvard Business Review produces a number of webinars on important topics. Download the webinar summaries or watch the webinar recordings to learn from those at the leading edge of healthcare reform. These webinars are sponsored by Medtronic.

THE CASE FOR BUNDLED PAYMENTS IN HEALTH CARE

Harvard Business School professors Michael Porter and Robert S. Kaplan will explain why bundled payments represent a real fix to today's broken health care system and outline how bundled payments will trigger competition between providers to create value where it truly matters-for individual patients experiencing specific conditions.

LEVERAGING HEALTH CARE IT INVESTMENT

David Cutler and Robert Huckman discuss insights and lessons on how to leverage IT investments to drive meaningful operational changes in health care. Organizations must take a three-step approach: identify improvement opportunities, gather and analyze data, and implement organizational change. These actions can result in more efficient, passive data collection, improved business intelligence, streamlined workflows, and better-aligned business models.

REVOLUTIONIZING HEALTH CARE – HOW SAVVY EMPLOYERS CAN USE THEIR PURCHASING POWER TO REDUCE HEALTH CARE COSTS

Robert Mecklenburg describes the barriers and systemic defects that make health care unaffordable and detail how proactive employers have taken charge by forming marketplace collaboratives. The results to date are promising — improved quality, reduced waste and cost, and accelerated change in health care delivery.

MEASURING OUTCOMES: THE KEY TO VALUE-BASED HEALTH CARE

This Harvard Business Review webinar examines the ability to identify and use the right measurements to change our approach to treatment and costs, including risk sharing. Featuring Christina Akerman, MD, PHD, President of International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM), and Senior Institute Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. This webinar is provided by Harvard Business Review and sponsored by Medtronic.

VALUE-BASED HEALTH CARE: RECONCILING MISSION AND MARGIN

This Harvard Business Review webinar features Robert Kaplan, senior fellow and the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, Harvard Business School. This is the nexus of research Kaplan is doing on Value-based Health Care for his Harvard Executive Education program showing where investments can pay off more than cutting costs in health care. This webinar is provided by Harvard Business Review and sponsored by Medtronic.