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Employee Turnover – The Hidden Cost

Chart Your Course

What is employee turnover costing you? A successful business is always looking for ways to cut costs and increase revenues, so they can grow their profits. Employee retention is important because employee turnover costs time, money and productivity. There are many tasks involved in running a successful business.

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ASA Deming Lecture by Brent James: Long Term View of the Healthcare System

Deming Institute

Deming Consults on Quality for Sir William Osler” by Brent James , Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. The beginning of the talk provides an overview of the huge macroeconomic risks of the health care system in the USA. Deming added excessive health care costs to his 7 deadly diseases of Western management.

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Healthcare Mergers: An Emerging Crisis | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

area, a move it describes as “driven largely by health care reform, which demands an integrated regional network.&# Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. Johns Hopkins is not alone. .&#

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3 Mistakes in U.S. Health Care That Emerging Economies Can’t Afford to Repeat

Harvard Business Review

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. One major reason for the rapid cost inflation in health care is burgeoning hospital construction.

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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The health care industry has survived economically by cross-subsidizing margin shortfalls in one activity with the revenues generated from others. But the very existence of these cross-subsidies is symptomatic of deep flaws in the health care reimbursement system. The actionable cost savings from process improvement.

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Deming’s Ideas Applied at Intermountain Healthcare Since 1988

Deming Institute

Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). Edwards Deming’s process management theory. … Intermountain has been identified as a low-cost, high-quality provider.1

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What Employers Can Do to Accelerate Health Care Reform

Harvard Business Review

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers. Insight Center.