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Lessons from the Mayo Clinic: Can design thinking help global …

WebDateline: November 2011 Location: MIT Sloan by MIT Sloan student David Xie. Summary This essay reflects on the strength, outcome and challenges associated …

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What is the role of design thinking in global health delivery

WebWe were lucky enough to have Jose Colucci, IDEO’s Health and Wellness lead in Boston, join our class yesterday for an interactive workshop on design thinking …

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Business models for global health: Nyaya Health

WebNyaya Health is a non-governmental health care organization that operates in a poor rural region of Nepal called Achham. It is founded on the belief that every …

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Energy infrastructure and healthcare delivery

WebExploring the role of energy infrastructure in healthcare delivery in the developing world.

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Hospital Market Positioning Amid a Changing Health Sector

WebCARE Hospitals evolved from a cardiac hospital to a chain of multi-specialty tertiary and quaternary care hospitals with 1600 beds in five Indian states that aimed to provide affordable, high quality services to a broad a segment of the country’s population, including lower-income segments.

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Improving Global Healthcare Delivery

WebAbout GlobalHealth Lab. GlobalHealth Lab is a class that pairs teams of MIT Sloan students with organizations on the front lines of healthcare delivery to codesign practial …

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Can a franchise deliver global health

WebCan franchises deliver better and more health care cost-effectively in places where current system fall short, and along the way equip a cadre of microentrepeneurs to spur economic development? We looked at the issues again this year: first, to explore what franchising entails, next, to study one chain of franchise clinic-pharmacies operating in …

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Understanding major diseases from a patient’s story

WebWe looked at some of the big-picture data on major diseases in our second class session, but to begin to really develop an understanding of some of the major …

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Could social franchise clinics deliver sustainable primary healthcare

WebAnjali Sastry. Dr. Sastry is a senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and at Harvard Medical School. In 2007, Anjali founded GlobalHealth Lab …

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National Market Entry Strategy for a New Anesthesia Machine

WebGradian Health Systems, a New York headquartered company, aimed to equip hospitals to deliver anesthesia safely and economically with its Universal Anesthesia Machine …

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Health innovation: Technology + Entrepreneurs + Institutions

WebA brand-new special issue of BMC International Health and Human Rights features a special collection on Health innovation in sub-Saharan Africa.The papers …

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Business models in global health: Heart Institute of the Caribbean

WebShould the Heart Institute of the Caribbean expand to West Africa? Student observations on the organization’s success and future goals. In late 2010, a small team …

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Increasing Community Health Worker Income at BRAC

WebImproving the Essential Health Care program could benefit BRAC’s 55,000 embedded community health workers by raising their income and enable BRAC to address health needs of vulnerable people more effectively and efficiently. The organization’s keystone Essential Health Care program is delivered by 60,000 village women that it trains as

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Mapping processes and value chains to understand strategy in …

WebIn social enterprise, several threads of work account for value chains. Consider its potential application in economic development presented in Upgrading along …

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Major diseases: A (majorly) big-picture view

WebWe had only a very short time–some 60 minutes–to start learning about major diseases in our class this week. As I told students, they way we see it, this class …

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