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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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Obama: The Great Answerer

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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.

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Obama: The Great Answerer

CO2

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.

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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.

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The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery

Harvard Business Review

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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How Whole Foods Market Innovates in Employee Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Providing employee health care has become a real challenge for businesses, especially in the United States, where costs keep rising inexorably. The fact that we are self-insured — the company itself pays their health claims, not an outside insurance company — makes us prudent about our costs.

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To Radically Redesign Health Care, Start with One Unit

Harvard Business Review

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.