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ASA Deming Lecture by Brent James: Long Term View of the Healthcare System

Deming Institute

2010 ASA Deming Lecture – “Dr. Deming Consults on Quality for Sir William Osler” by Brent James , Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. The beginning of the talk provides an overview of the huge macroeconomic risks of the health care system in the USA. On this success Brent says.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. We know this because in India innovators have found ways to deliver high-quality care to everyone — rich, poor, and virtually penniless — and make money doing it.

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For U.S. Employers, Health Care Reform Is a Watching and Waiting Game

Harvard Business Review

Understanding the implementation plans for the health care law passed in 2010 is a complicated job for even the most seasoned policy wonks. These logistics took a sharp new turn last week when the Obama administration decided to delay enforcing mandatory employer and insurer employment requirements until 2015.

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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. Many of them want to share responsibility in how the hospital is managed. Leading Change in Health Care. With an accountable care organization (ACO). Insight Center.

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Offices Can Be Bastions of Civility in an Uncivil Time

Harvard Business Review

Since 2010 Weber Shandwick and Powell Tate, in partnership with KRC Research, have tracked Americans’ perceptions of civility in various aspects of life, including work. ” Prompted in 2015 by fatal police shootings in Ferguson, Missouri, and other cities, the company now holds “ Can We Talk ?”

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

Consider the case of MedStar Health, the largest nongovernment health care provider in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., region, as it navigates a dramatic shift from competing by offering integrated, comprehensive medical services to offering lower cost preventive care. area health care market has indeed shifted.

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Stop Saying Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Harvard Business Review

Vanguard carved out a niche by managing low-cost index mutual funds in 1975. The company now has more than 20 million investors in 170 companies and, as of the end of last year, manages more than $3 trillion in global assets. Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011.