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Preview Thursday: Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It

Lead Change Blog

Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.”. Entire new systems need to be constructed just to manage this complexity, with questionable or negative value to society at large. today, where complexity is piled upon complexity in a number of critical sectors, such as health care, energy, finance, and government.

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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business Review

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. health care keeps getting costlier. These astronomical costs are largely due to the way competition works in American health care. It has partnered with Boston-based startup Iora Health.

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Hiring Uncertainties.

Strategy Driven

Many of the provisions of the sweeping health-care bill passed by the House of Representatives in March won’t kick in until 2014, however these provisions spell big changes for small businesses. Unfortunately, few expect a change in the 9.6 percent unemployment rate.

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Inpatient Patient Navigator Program Reduces Length of Stay

Harvard Business Review

Communication is essential for any successful relationship, including the one between a provider and her patient; however, social, economic, behavioral, and even care system barriers can weaken that connection, which may result in delayed or poor quality care. In June 2010, we instituted a Patient Navigator Program in Mt.

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Streaks, from Jumpin' Joe to Mutual Fund Managers

Harvard Business Review

And it's also readily observable that performance streaks are everywhere: We have Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak , Paul the Octopus's seven-game prediction streak for Germany's games in the 2010 World Cup, Ken Jenning's 74-game Jeopardy streak , and Bill Miller's 15-year streak when his mutual fund beat the S&P 500. But is this true?

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A Role for Specialists in Resuscitating Accountable Care Organizations

Harvard Business Review

health care are Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) — networks of doctors, hospitals and usually payers banded together to rein in costs by providing higher quality, better coordinated care, with primary care doctors central to the process. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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How Pharma Can Fix Its Reputation and Its Business at the Same Time

Harvard Business Review

The estimated return on these (fewer) products has itself declined substantially since 2010, from 10.1% According to a Credit Suisse analysis of 20 leading global pharma companies, 80% of their growth in net profits in 2014 stemmed from price increases in the United States. Enhance corporate reputations.