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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

These efforts were part of the providers’ quest to increase the value of their care delivery — in other words, achieve better outcomes at the lowest-possible cost. One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. select a project team with the right skill sets.

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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is seeking to reduce its cost structure by redesigning its health-care-delivery model to reflect the true costs of care (the early stages of the project were described in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article by Robert S. Kaplan and Michael E.