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Healthcare Mergers: An Emerging Crisis | StrategyDriven

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area, a move it describes as “driven largely by health care reform, which demands an integrated regional network.&# Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. Johns Hopkins is not alone. .&#

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To Radically Redesign Health Care, Start with One Unit

Harvard Business Review

It is a widely held belief among health care leaders that comparing their hospitals and clinics to peers is very important. health care quality and safety is abysmal: The evidence suggests that between 240,000 to 400,000 deaths occur each year due to medical errors. Leading Change in Health Care.

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How to Prepare Yourself for the Executive Chair

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If you don’t hold a finance or operations position, consider cross training. You can read books about HR and marketing, but getting your head in and hands on the finances and operations will pay huge premiums later on. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. You’ll need this sort of groundwork for upward mobility.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

Everyone knows that dentists, nurses, social workers and respiratory therapists are all health care professionals. Their work is off-the-shelf, conforms to an established mode of operation, contains original thought and draws precedents from experience. (17 Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. 17 percent).

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Statesman vs. Politician | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Without these term limits, the congress has no reason to include themselves in the health care system they impose on us. However, I have recently changes my tune. There is motivation to limit their own pay to that near what their constituents make.

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