Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Leaders in government, business, and health care must address these persistent disparities at the national, state, and local levels, as both an ethical and an economic imperative. Promote a diverse health care workforce. Deliver patient-centered care. years in 1970 to 3.8

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Quality Report 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

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. .&#

Crisis 63

Crisis Health Care Insurance Newsletter 63

CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

Health Care 74

Health Care Executive Coaching Strategic Planning Politics 74

Sales Wolf Blog

AUGUST 27, 2010

.  When the TED conference was first conceived in 1984 its scope was originally Technology, Education and Design (hence the name TED).    I am confident you will find something educational and inspiring that will help you to Maximize Possibility in your organization! Bottom line: ideas can change the world. 

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Human Resources Conference Video Blog 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 1980, the national expenditure on health care in the United States was just over 9% of Gross Domestic Product. According to data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, workers’ earnings rose by 47% from 1999 to 2012, but their contribution to health insurance premiums during that time went up by 180%.

Health Care 8

Health Care Constraint Budgeting Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2017

But health care providers are also widely held responsible for overprescribing prescription opioids. Transforming Health Care. million Medicare beneficiaries who filled at least two opioid prescriptions in 2011, 34% received prescriptions from two providers, 14% from three providers, and 12% from four or more providers.

Health Care 8

Health Care Comparison Crisis Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2015

It is a widely held belief among health care leaders that comparing their hospitals and clinics to peers is very important. health care quality and safety is abysmal: The evidence suggests that between 240,000 to 400,000 deaths occur each year due to medical errors. Leading Change in Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Benchmarking Process Operations 8

Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Here is another of those articles: How Intermountain Trimmed Health Care Costs Through Robust Quality Improvement Efforts by Brent James and Lucy Savitz (2011). Its network of twenty-three hospitals and 160 clinics provides more than half of all health care delivered in the region.

Deming 28

Deming Health Care System Cost 28

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

One of the main justifications for the mergers and acquisitions sweeping the health care industry is greater integration between the physicians and teams that care for patients. In 2011 Mayo elected to follow this course. We chose to support independent medical centers by creating the Mayo Clinic Care Network.

Health Care 8

Health Care Mayo Due Diligence Human Resources 8

Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Posted by: Allan Gainer | February 23, 2010 at 01:41 PM Bubba says, "By golly Cletus, it's the making of the next Obamacare health care proposal." Posted by: JustinArndt | February 23, 2010 at 01:45 PM Bubba says, "By golly Cletus, it's the making of the next Obamacare health care proposal."

Health Care 85

Health Care Henderson Blog Letter 85

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2012

These ideas will help: If you didn’t have the advantages of a stellar education, remedy that situation. Copyright 2007-2011 by StrategyDriven, Inc. Executive Vision – The Blueprint for Breakthrough Leadership: Health Care. Present and future executives need more. They need Landing in the Executive Chair.

Execution 62

Execution How To Finance Competitive Advantage 62

Women in the LEAD

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

  The more research that I do on feminine attributes and the differences between masculine and feminine communication the more I realize that it is a miracle that the planet holds as much peace as it does.   In the past twenty years or so, we have read many works telling us what we already knew.

Leadership 40

Leadership Letter Taylorism Taylor 40

Women in the LEAD

AUGUST 25, 2009

  The more research that I do on feminine attributes and the differences between masculine and feminine communication the more I realize that it is a miracle that the planet holds as much peace as it does.     In the past twenty years or so, we have read many works telling us what we already knew.

Leadership 40

Leadership Letter Taylorism Taylor 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Why do American employers act like helicopter parents when it comes to their employees’ health care? Today all wage earners are required to put savings into an individual account to cover future health-care expenses, a scheme called Medisave. While Health Savings Accounts have existed in the U.S.

Health Care 8

Health Care Company Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2017

Low-risk expectant mothers pay a high price for unnecessary prenatal appointments in the form of time away from work and associated lost wages or personal days, child care costs, and so on. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum. How the most innovative providers are creating value.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Information Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2017

The Leading Edge of Health Care. We looked at more than a dozen—both health care-specific programs with strong connections in the health care “ecosystem” and industry-agnostic programs. Digital technologies promise to transform health care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

Health Care 10

Health Care Company Innovation Entrepreneur 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

The cost of raising a child has increased by $40,000, or 23% in 2011 dollars, over the past-half decade, a new study finds. In some respects, this is good news, writes Derek Thompson, since education is a better long-term investment than underwear. THOSE DARN KIDS. The Rising Cost of Raising Children. BONUS BITS: Et Tu, Talents?

Health Care 13

Health Care Long-term Cooper Loyalty 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Communication is essential for any successful relationship, including the one between a provider and her patient; however, social, economic, behavioral, and even care system barriers can weaken that connection, which may result in delayed or poor quality care. Leading Health Care Innovation. The Solution. The Evidence.

Health Care 8

Health Care Constraint Follow-up Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2018

Poor pay , increased health care costs , and diminished pension plans are certainly core issues — teachers in Oklahoma haven’t received a pay boost in a decade. To them, nothing less than the education profession is at risk. But these problems alone aren’t driving the protests. What is professionalism exactly?

Education 8

Education Survey Stress Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

The combination of prescribing transparency, education, and one-on-one counseling has helped to dramatically reduce the number of high volume prescribers and cut the prescribing of new opioids by 44% over the past three years. Pharmacist-supported pain management.

System 10

System Health Care Review Focus Group 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

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.

Quality 8

Quality Mayo System Six Sigma 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2016

We conducted around 100 interviews, not with mainstream professionals but with leaders and new providers in eight professional fields: health, law, education, audit, tax, consulting, journalism, architecture, and divinity. Our focus was on what has actually been achieved at the cutting edge. Insight Center. The Automation Age.

System 8

System Creativity Health Care Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Pressuring physicians to maximize the number of patients they see and minimizing the time they spend with each is one of five counterproductive mistakes that health care providers often make in trying to reduce costs — the subject of a recent article in the Harvard Business Review.

Cost 13

Cost Class Compliance Maturity 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2011

A decade on, in January 2011, The Economist has revised its dark vision, calling Africa's countries " The Lion Kings.". It won't be global middle class level with incomes of over $70,000, but still above subsistence living, buying health care, food, education, transportation, and entertainment.

McKinsey 12

McKinsey Health Care Class Transportation 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

As Chad Syverson at the University of Chicago wryly noted in his 2011 round-up of the evidence on what drives productivity : “…no potential driver of productivity differences has seen a higher ratio of speculation to actual empirical study” than management. And while this study focused on U.S.

Skills 12

Skills Management Succession Bottom-up 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

When it comes to health care costs, America’s employers are at a crossroads. That means that to control costs going forward, employers may have to confront the true underlying causes of rising health care expenditures: high prices and health care inefficiencies. The Future of Health Care.

Health Care 8

Health Care Cost Insurance Price 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Today, enlightened employers know that, if they want great people to perform at the top of their game, they must engage and care for employees' well-being on a variety of fronts that go beyond a paycheck. At Starbucks, this shift is values can be seen in the health-care coverage and stock options we have long offered to part-time employees.

Health Care 15

Health Care Innovation Crisis Brainstorming 15

Deming Institute

JULY 30, 2015

I blogged about my experience in healthcare back in 2011 and described how my “hope level” for improvement in healthcare has gone up and down like a sine-wave pattern over the last 20-30 years. This is the worldview that is still dominant in most of our institutions include education, government and industry.

Deming 28

Deming Influence System Seminar 28

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Today tens of millions of 50-, 60-, and 70-somethings say they are eager to apply their accumulated skills in areas like education, health, and the environment. The organization's motto: "One day, all children in this nation will have the opportunity to attain an excellent education.". But it doesn't have to be this way.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Finance Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

In a 2011 study management teams exhibiting a wider range of educational and work backgrounds produced more-innovative products. health care firm. For example, a 2009 analysis of 506 companies found that firms with more racial or gender diversity had more sales revenue, more customers, and greater profits.

Diversity 8

Diversity Team Bottom-up Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

Even health care is harking back to the days of the house call. Money is increasingly going to buy bandwidth, music and entertainment, cloud services, education content, information services, and games. So the inclination to work at home, or use some form of mass transit, is only going to increase.

Technology 8

Technology Retail Transportation Construction 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Over the years, the energy around servant-leadership has sort of focused around businesses, health care, higher education, schools, and faith-based institutions. Another was the idea of servant leadership as related to education and particularly higher education, but also community education and other kinds as well.

Greenleaf 125

Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 125

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

That breakthrough is value-based care, the goal of which is to lower health care costs and improve quality and outcomes. Not everyone, however, is onboard yet, because part of the value-based equation is that hospitals will be paid less to deliver better care. How the Health Care World Will Change.

Health Care 9

Health Care Supply Chain Cost Quality 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2016

VP, Marketing, Communication, and Strategy 2011 – present. The first one is told by a woman who’s improved the lives of at-risk youth by revolutionizing developing countries’ educational systems. As with our prior example, these bullet points are much more effective within the context of her larger story.

Brand 8

Brand Press Release Marketing B2B 8

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Over the years, the energy around servant-leadership has sort of focused around businesses, health care, higher education, schools, and faith-based institutions. Another was the idea of servant leadership as related to education and particularly higher education, but also community education and other kinds as well.

Greenleaf 100

Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Even before the recession, incomes of American middle-class families weren't keeping up with inflation, especially with the rising costs of what are considered the essential ingredients of middle-class life—college education , health care and housing. Source: The Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2011.

Class 102

Class Health Care Long-term Budgeting 102

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Case in point: Gap missed many of its performance numbers in 2011 by believing that their only interaction with their customers happened at the cash register. Finding out where any particular customers hang out and talking with them directly is central to accurately understanding demand and building it into the business model.

Banking 16

Banking Business Model Supply Chain Mass Marketing 16