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Large Employers Are Key to Reforming Health Care

Harvard Business Review

health care system. Standardization of best practices in delivering care reduces unnecessary treatment, improves safety, and allows buyers and sellers of health care to use the same vocabulary, with the same information about quality and value. Change is difficult.

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How the U.S. Army Personalized Its Mental Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Army’s efforts to come to grips with a dramatic upsurge in war-related behavioral conditions over the past 13 years holds valuable lessons for bringing precision mental health care to the civilian world. Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 Innovating for Value in Health Care. million to 3.3 Insight Center.

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An Alternative to Health Care M&A

Harvard Business Review

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.

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Expanding the Reach of Primary Care in Developing Countries

Harvard Business Review

While advances in health care in the developed world often emphasize new technologies, in developing lower- and middle-income countries simply expanding the reach of basic primary care services is crucial to improving health. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.