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Organizational Health Care with N2Growth: When was your Last Check-up?

N2Growth Blog

IT’S TIME TO TAKE CHARGE OF YOUR ORGANIZATION’S HEALTH! Schedule an appointment with your organization’s health care provider (you do have one right?) We’re providing some of our resources to help you and your health care provider (you do have one right?) WHERE CAN I GO FOR HEALTH SERVICES?

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How Telemedicine Can Ease ER Overcrowding

The Horizons Tracker

. “This longstanding problem is mainly driven by the imbalance between increasing patient flow and the shortage of emergency room capacity,” the researchers explain. “While the ER is supposed to be a safety net of the health care system, the overcrowding problem has strained this safety net and posits various threats.”

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Quotes to Note from Superabundance

The Practical Leader

Put differently, growth does not solve all human problems, but without growth there can be no plenitude of food, sophisticated health care, excellent sanitation, modern transportation, and a plethora of other conveniences that make modern life so much better and more enjoyable than life in the past. How substantial?

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. The Future of Health Care. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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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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The Downside of Health Care Job Growth

Harvard Business Review

While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. Reducing the rate at which health care costs grow, and the proportion of U. health system grew by nearly 75%. Over half of the $2.6

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Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office

Harvard Business Review

Many health care organizations today are striving to deliver better patient outcomes at lower cost and to be rewarded for accomplishing both. Leading Change in Health Care. HSS has multiple groups that drive efficiencies in discrete parts of a patient’s episode of care (i.e., Insight Center.