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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. Here, then, is the conundrum.

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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. Mayo was the first care-delivery group to receive this delegated authority. Authority and Structure.

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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. Among the current remedies for U.S.

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Operational Improvement Has Improved

Harvard Business Review

Continuous improvement and quality have become part of the management lexicon. About ten years ago they spread to financial services and, in the past five years, more deeply into health care and services. People and organizations have access to many more vehicles for learning about the latest in management practices.

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What Are The Pros And Cons of A PEO?

ExactHire - Leadership

The following post is provided courtesy of Human Capital Concepts (HCC), a Certified Professional Employment Organization that partners with employers to manage employee-related responsibilities and risks. Most of these tasks revolve around employee management. The Affordable Care Act did more than raise premiums.

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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. A mission-driven payer mix.