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Mackert and Garfield Named to Board of Examiners for 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

Six Disciplines

The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The

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The Power of Digitalizing Health Care - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS

Harvard Business Review

The acceleration of digital technology has enabled the disruption of many disparate industries. Yet health care, which represents about 10% of global GDP, has lagged behind other sectors. Operationalize digital innovations while focusing on effective change management to ensure buy- in from clinical and non-clinical staff.

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Stop Decorating the Fish

Skip Prichard

Former government official and management expert Kristen Cox teamed up with business consultant Yishai Ashlag in the book Stop Decorating the Fish: Which Solutions to Ignore and Which Problems Really Matter. As I went blind, I had to learn how to manage many of the negative stereotypes society has about the blind. Why is that?

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11 Things the Health Care Sector Must Do to Improve Cybersecurity

Harvard Business Review

That reality was made painfully clear in mid-May, when a cyberattacker using WannaCry ransomware crippled health care institutions and many other kinds of organizations around the world. In 2015 over 113 million Americans health records were exposed, and in 2016 the number was over 16 million, according to reports submitted to the U.S.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Patients are co-designers, co-developers, and increasingly more responsible for their own and collective health outcomes. We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. We know this because in India innovators have found ways to deliver high-quality care to everyone — rich, poor, and virtually penniless — and make money doing it.

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One Hospital’s Experiments in Virtual Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Few recent trends in health care delivery have more power to improve population health, patient and provider experience, and hospital business models than virtual care. Which technology tools will meet the demographic, clinical, and business needs for these services? Innovating for Value in Health Care.