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Building a Culture of Transparency in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

In health care today, the conversation around transparency centers on the consumer. Health care providers must respond with as much information as possible to ensure appropriate care is delivered, quality and safety are top of mind, and patients and their care team can make thoughtful care decisions.

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Adaptation of the 14 Points to Medical Service

Deming Institute

Dr. Paul Batalden and Dr. Loren Vorlicky of the Health Services Research Center translated them into a health care context. Teach supervisors how to use the results of surveys of patients. But I should probably learn to accept this is just how things are, as it is still going on decades later.

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Who Inspires Your Management Thinking and Action?

Curious Cat

” He discussed Paul O’Neill’s influence on his thinking ; I agree that Paul has done some very impressive work in health care. I have written about my management influences in the past: Active Management Improvement Leaders (2006) and Who Influences Your Thinking? Bill Hunter and John Hunter.

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HBR’s Guide to Obama’s 2014 State of the Union

Harvard Business Review

He mentioned a number of themes that we cover regularly here at HBR: the minimum wage, inequality, women in the workplace, manufacturing, and health care to name just a few. That view is shared by University of Colorado’s Wayne Cascio, who in 2006 wrote about the high cost of low wages for business. Health Care Costs.

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The Aim Should be the Best Life – Not Work v. Life Balance

Curious Cat

So you need to figure out how to make the most of work within the containing system of your life. Even if work isn’t that meaningful to you, still the proper vision is the integrated whole; some people just have a more minor role for their work-life than others.

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Integrating Maintenance of Board Certification and Health Systems’ Quality-Improvement Programs

Harvard Business Review

Health care systems are transforming themselves to deliver the “Triple Aim” of providing better care and a better patient experience, improving the health of populations, and lowering the cost of care. Mayo was the first care-delivery group to receive this delegated authority. Authority and Structure.

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Making Predictive Analytics a Routine Part of Patient Care

Harvard Business Review

Over the last five years, electronic health records (EHRs) have been widely implemented in the United States, and health care systems now have access to vast amounts of data. Health systems are still learning how to broadly apply such analytics, outside of case examples, to improve patient outcomes while reducing spending.