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Ensuring your business’s data integrity empowers profitable business decisions

Strategy Driven

Organizations rely on their data in order to make critical operational, tactical, and transactional business decisions that significantly affect the survival and livelihood of their company. A business’s life source is its data, and with the recent data breaches and cyber attacks, the state of a business’s data has become a top concern.

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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. Generate high-quality imaging, laboratory, and operational data. Taking the Pulse of Health Care Transformation.

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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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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). Its network of twenty-three hospitals and 160 clinics provides more than half of all health care delivered in the region.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

They saw it as an opportunity to completely transform the operation to improve care and the patient experience and to lower costs. To that end, they decided to have a team study how care is delivered, identify the barriers to smooth operations, and fix the barriers. Marys during the fourth quarter of 2015.

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The Big Picture of Business – Collaborations, Partnering and Joint-Venturing… Priority for Business.

Strategy Driven

The client is opening new locations in new communities and asks its consultants to formulate a plan of action and oversee operating aspects. Teams of health care professionals, as found in clinics and hospitals. Multiple companies find that doing business in a new country is easier when a consortium operates.

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