Strategy for Health Care Delivery
- Dates: 05–08 NOV 2023
- Format: In-Person Learning takes place on the HBS campus or a designated location.
- Location: HBS Campus
- Fee: $11,250

"The case studies underscored the value of measuring outcomes carefully and consistently."
Summary
When you improve value, everyone wins—your patients, your organization, and the global health care ecosystem. This program examines the latest strategies and organizational models for transforming the way health care is delivered, measured, and reimbursed. Empowered with new insights and capabilities, you will return to your organization prepared to implement and oversee a value-based health care approach that lowers costs and improves outcomes.
This program is offered in cooperation with the HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC).
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Summary
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When you improve value, everyone wins—your patients, your organization, and the global health care ecosystem. This program examines the latest strategies and organizational models for transforming the way health care is delivered, measured, and reimbursed. Empowered with new insights and capabilities, you will return to your organization prepared to implement and oversee a value-based health care approach that lowers costs and improves outcomes.
This program is offered in cooperation with the HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC).
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Align your organization around a value-based strategyAlign your organization around a value-based strategy
- Build a firm foundation for exploring and implementing strategy transformation
- Manage the issues that arise when implementing new approaches
- Lead strategic and organizational change to generate value
Improve health care quality, system delivery, and patient valueImprove health care quality, system delivery, and patient value
- Access a network of health care institutions and facilities to enhance quality and coordination of care
- Leverage partnerships and implement outcome measurement strategies to improve care for complicated patient populations
- Structure your organization according to patient needs rather than medical specialties
Optimize costs through accurate measurement and reportingOptimize costs through accurate measurement and reporting
- Apply the concept of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) to measure health care costs and outcomes
- Design and implement a bundled payment system to reduce health care spending and increase quality of care
- Explore strategy transformation, geographic expansion, and the process of introducing new measurement approaches
Expand your personal and professional networkExpand your personal and professional network
- Extend your network by living and working with accomplished health care executives from various backgrounds, sectors, and countries across the globe
- Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions
Align your organization around a value-based strategy
- Build a firm foundation for exploring and implementing strategy transformation
- Manage the issues that arise when implementing new approaches
- Lead strategic and organizational change to generate value
Improve health care quality, system delivery, and patient value
- Access a network of health care institutions and facilities to enhance quality and coordination of care
- Leverage partnerships and implement outcome measurement strategies to improve care for complicated patient populations
- Structure your organization according to patient needs rather than medical specialties
Optimize costs through accurate measurement and reporting
- Apply the concept of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) to measure health care costs and outcomes
- Design and implement a bundled payment system to reduce health care spending and increase quality of care
- Explore strategy transformation, geographic expansion, and the process of introducing new measurement approaches
Expand your personal and professional network
- Extend your network by living and working with accomplished health care executives from various backgrounds, sectors, and countries across the globe
- Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions
Who Should Attend
- Senior-level management from health care delivery organizations, such as general managers, senior clinical leaders responsible for overseeing care delivery, and financial executives who direct cost management
- Senior executives or strategists from large organizations that provide health care to employees or customers, collaborate with health care institutions, or offer on-site health services or retail health care (e.g., Minute Clinic) as part of their business model
- Senior executives from nonprofit organizations that deliver health care services
- Executives from health care insurance companies, government entities that pay for health care, or other payor organizations
- Leaders from pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, or other health care supply companies—including startups and established firms

Program for Leadership Development participants earn 2 PLDA Points on completion of this program.
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Who Should Attend
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- Senior-level management from health care delivery organizations, such as general managers, senior clinical leaders responsible for overseeing care delivery, and financial executives who direct cost management
- Senior executives or strategists from large organizations that provide health care to employees or customers, collaborate with health care institutions, or offer on-site health services or retail health care (e.g., Minute Clinic) as part of their business model
- Senior executives from nonprofit organizations that deliver health care services
- Executives from health care insurance companies, government entities that pay for health care, or other payor organizations
- Leaders from pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, or other health care supply companies—including startups and established firms
Program for Leadership Development participants earn 2 PLDA Points on completion of this program.
Learning and Living at HBS
When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.
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Learning and Living at HBS
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When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.
Admissions Criteria and Process
Answering Your Questions
Application Submission
Application Review
Fee, Payment, and Cancellations
Answering Your Questions
Application Submission
Application Review
Fee, Payment, and Cancellations
What You Will Learn
In this program, you won't just explore value-based health care concepts—you'll learn exactly how to implement them. Through a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, global case studies, guest speakers, and small-group discussions, you will discover how leading health care organizations are using value-based approaches in a variety of medical contexts. Focused on six specific strategic agendas, you will learn how to overcome the organizational challenges of moving toward high-value, integrated care delivery.
Participants should expect to spend at least 9-12 hours on self-paced case preparation prior to attending the program. Case materials will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.
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What You Will Learn
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In this program, you won't just explore value-based health care concepts—you'll learn exactly how to implement them. Through a rich learning experience that includes faculty presentations, global case studies, guest speakers, and small-group discussions, you will discover how leading health care organizations are using value-based approaches in a variety of medical contexts. Focused on six specific strategic agendas, you will learn how to overcome the organizational challenges of moving toward high-value, integrated care delivery.
Participants should expect to spend at least 9-12 hours on self-paced case preparation prior to attending the program. Case materials will be made available approximately two weeks prior to program start.
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Creating a more effective practiceCreating a more effective practice
- Organizing into integrated practice units around patient medical conditions or distinct patient populations for primary and preventive care
- Creating and leading a value-based delivery organization
- Incorporating primary care in value-based health care
- Integrating primary care with specialty care
- Overcoming barriers to change
Measuring and optimizing health outcomes and costs for every patientMeasuring and optimizing health outcomes and costs for every patient
- Identifying, measuring, and reporting outcomes that matter to patients
- Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to measure the cost of care
- Using outcome and cost data to address areas for improvement, such as matching the right providers to the right tasks
- Empowering clinicians to improve the value of care
- Demonstrating improved outcomes
Aligning payment with valueAligning payment with value
- Moving to value-based reimbursements
- Employing bundled payments that cover the full care cycle
- Managing bundled payment contracts
Integrating care delivery across facilities in health systemsIntegrating care delivery across facilities in health systems
- Rationalizing service lines
- Performing services in the right location
- Integrating patient care across locations
Expanding across geography through new facilities, affiliations, and partnershipsExpanding across geography through new facilities, affiliations, and partnerships
- Expanding centers of excellence regionally and nationally
- Creating a network strategy based on value for patients
- Collaborating and coordinating care with key partners
Creating an enabling information technology platformCreating an enabling information technology platform
- Moving to value-based reimbursements
- Implementing value-based health care in a large system
- Developing a data collection infrastructure to record outcomes and resource use
Creating a more effective practice
- Organizing into integrated practice units around patient medical conditions or distinct patient populations for primary and preventive care
- Creating and leading a value-based delivery organization
- Incorporating primary care in value-based health care
- Integrating primary care with specialty care
- Overcoming barriers to change
Measuring and optimizing health outcomes and costs for every patient
- Identifying, measuring, and reporting outcomes that matter to patients
- Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to measure the cost of care
- Using outcome and cost data to address areas for improvement, such as matching the right providers to the right tasks
- Empowering clinicians to improve the value of care
- Demonstrating improved outcomes
Aligning payment with value
- Moving to value-based reimbursements
- Employing bundled payments that cover the full care cycle
- Managing bundled payment contracts
Integrating care delivery across facilities in health systems
- Rationalizing service lines
- Performing services in the right location
- Integrating patient care across locations
Expanding across geography through new facilities, affiliations, and partnerships
- Expanding centers of excellence regionally and nationally
- Creating a network strategy based on value for patients
- Collaborating and coordinating care with key partners
Creating an enabling information technology platform
- Moving to value-based reimbursements
- Implementing value-based health care in a large system
- Developing a data collection infrastructure to record outcomes and resource use
The HBS Advantage
Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by HBS faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.
Senior Fellow, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus
Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management
Cullen Trust Distinguished University Chair and Professor
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The HBS Advantage
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Our Executive Education programs are developed and taught by HBS faculty who are widely recognized as skilled educators, groundbreaking researchers, and award-winning authors. Through their board memberships, consulting, and field-based research, they address the complex challenges facing business leaders across the globe.
Faculty ChairSenior Fellow, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus
HBS Unit:Accounting and ManagementFacultyBruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration
HBS Unit:General ManagementAssistant Professor of Business Administration
HBS Unit:Accounting and ManagementHarvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health:Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management
University of Texas, Austin:Cullen Trust Distinguished University Chair and Professor
Your Peers Expand Your Learning
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Your Peers Expand Your Learning
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