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Delivering Higher Value Care Means Spending More Time with Patients

Harvard Business Review

To understand these issues better, we formed a project team to study patients that started on dialysis in 2011 and 2012. But they incur much higher costs later in the cycle when preventable complications are treated in emergency rooms and intensive care units. Costs Operations management Business processes Healthcare'

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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is seeking to reduce its cost structure by redesigning its health-care-delivery model to reflect the true costs of care (the early stages of the project were described in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article by Robert S. Health Operations' Kaplan and Michael E.