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Engaging Medical Specialists in Improving Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

It is critical to have physicians intimately involved in these efforts, yet hospitals and health systems struggle to engage them in improving care. Furthermore, much of the focus on health care redesign has been on primary care physicians, despite the fact that specialty care is responsible for the majority of health care spending.

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Searching for Health Care's Entrepreneurial Spirit

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. At first blush, it would appear that entrepreneurship is alive and well in health care. Will it come?

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The Health Care Reform That Can't Be Stopped

Harvard Business Review

There are few more personal, passionate, and political topics than health care. The reasons for this are clear: Health care spending has reached 17% of the U.S. But regardless of ACA's legal prognosis, the Pandora's Box of true health care reform has already been opened — and it happened before most of us realized.

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Health Care Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Driven by Profit

Harvard Business Review

As health care reform evolves, large public institutions that offer a health safety net have some advantages over privately owned enterprises. Those are all assets in an era of health care reform. I head one of these institutions: Dallas-based Parkland Health and Hospital Systems. Insight Center.

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Health Reform Lessons from Mexico

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Health systems are at a crossroads. The reason: half of the population lacked health insurance.

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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. Develop standards for QIPs. Develop standards for meaningful participation by individual physicians.

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How Discrimination Against Female Doctors Hurts Patients

Harvard Business Review

The percentage of enrollees who were women had reached 40% in 2010, and now stands at approximately 30%.). While overt sex-based discrimination like that observed at Tokyo Medical University is uncommon, pernicious attitudes and systemic pressures exist throughout medicine that inhibit the inclusion and development of female physicians.

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