Part One 哈佛公开课 Innovating in Health Care

The class is in video format and the transcript is paraphrased by ChatGPT for easy editing.

About this Course

Problems with healthcare quality, access, and costs bedevil all countries. This course explores how to create successful global business innovations in health care that can better meet consumer and social needs. Upon conclusion, you will learn to evaluate opportunities and gain an understanding of the elements necessary for viable healthcare business models. 

Innovating in Health Care (IHC) enables participants to meet and interact with others who are also interested in improving health care. Through case study analysis and application of the “Innovating in Health Care Framework”, this course focuses on evaluating and crafting healthcare startup business models that focus on the six factors that critically shape new healthcare ventures: Financing, Structure, Public Policy, Consumers, Technology, and Accountability.

Innovating in Health Care discusses the impact of these factors on business models for three different kinds of innovations: Consumer-focused, technology-driven, and integrations which create scale. 

Meet the Course Staff

Regina E. Herzlinger

Regina E. Herzlinger is the primary instructor for Innovating Health Care. She is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School (HBS). She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and the first to serve on a number of corporate boards.

She is widely recognized for her innovative research in health care, including her early predictions of the unraveling of managed care and the rise of consumer-driven health care, a term that she coined. Her work was key to introducing consumer-driven health plans and “focused health factories,” such as centers for orthopedics, cardiology, and cancer care.

She teaches an MBA course, Innovating in Health Care and two related field study courses. Based on that work, she is currently completing three text and cases books on Innovating in Health Care framework and its application in life sciences and health care insurance and delivery.

In 2013, she launched a new HBS Executive Education program “Business Innovations in Global Health Care.” In 2012, she launched a continuing series of conferences, “21st-Century Health Care Management Education: Confronting Challenges for Innovation with a Modern Curriculum,” with 156 global academic attendees.

Regina Herzlinger received her Bachelor’s Degree from MIT and her Doctorate from the Harvard Business School.

Margo I. Seltzer

Margo I. Seltzer will be teaching the Phreesia case. She is the Canada 150 Research Chair in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include provenance, file systems, databases, transaction processing systems, and applying technology to problems in healthcare.

She is the author of several widely-used software packages including database and transaction libraries and the 4.4BSD log-structured file system. Dr. Seltzer was a founder and CTO of Sleepycat Software, the makers of Berkeley DB, and is now an Architect at Oracle Corporation.

She is a past President of the USENIX Association. She is a Sloan Foundation Fellow in Computer Science, an ACM Fellow, a Bunting Fellow, and was the recipient of the 1996 Radcliffe Junior Faculty Fellowship. She is recognized as an outstanding teacher and mentor, having received the Phi Beta Kappa teaching award in 1996, the Abrahmson Teaching Award in 1999, and the Capers and Marion McDonaldAward for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising in 2010.

 Dr. Seltzer received an A.B. degree in Applied Mathematics from Harvard/Radcliffe College in 1983 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992.

Kevin Schulman

Kevin A. Schulman, MD, MBA, will be teaching the Brainlab case. He is a Professor of Medicine, Associate Chair of Business Development and Strategy in the Department of Medicine, Director of Industry Partnerships and Education for the Clinical Excellence Research Center (CERC) at the Stanford University School of Medicine, and, by courtesy, Professor of Economics at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.