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Obama: The Great Answerer

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Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Obama: The Great Answerer

CO2

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. At first, we worked with RIC as a consultant but then became its partner in 2009. Leading Change in Health Care. However, the evidence supporting mergers is uncertain at best.

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Get Your Team to Work Acoss Organizational Boundaries

Harvard Business Review

A company must get its sales, marketing, research and development, operations, and even customers and suppliers to work together. So how can you get this process team to sustain operational gains and continue to attack the next set of process problems? Yet teamwork across organizational boundaries is unnatural.

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A Payment Model That Prevents Unnecessary Medical Treatment

Harvard Business Review

health care system shift from fee for service to value-based approaches that pay providers for quality, they are turning to two models: One is procedure- and DRG-based bundled payments that pay one price for all the care related to treating a condition. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center.

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Rules For the Social Era

Harvard Business Review

Both are comments I got about my book, back in 2009, about setting direction, collaboratively. Facebook, KickStarter, Kiva, Twitter, and other companies thriving in the social era are operating by the rules of the Social Era. Most organizations operating today started when companies needed more operating capital.

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How the EMR Is Increasing Innovation and Creativity in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Americans are both undertreated and overtreated in a health care system that wastes up to $1 trillion a year and delivers profoundly uneven quality: Current estimates indicate that preventable medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Information technology has come late to health care delivery.