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Start the Year in the Right Rhythm

Harvard Business Review

From my experience, there are at least three types of cadence that leaders need to create: Planning and Budgeting: First, leaders need to make sure that an effective planning and budgeting cycle is in place at an organization level. This is the cadence that forces people to set strategies and goals and translate them into plans.

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The Cure for the Common Corporate Wellness Program

Harvard Business Review

But human resources departments can reconfigure their offerings so they are embraced, not resented. How can one be sure their position is not driven by genuine health concerns but rather by a desire for more control? Second, wellness has become a marketing tool for health plans, nowhere more so than at Aetna.

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How to Design a Bundled Payment Around Value

Harvard Business Review

The traditional fee-for-service reimbursement model is widely acknowledged to be a major driver of escalating health care costs. Harvard Pilgrim agreed to join the effort because it recognized that traditional payment models were unlikely to help control rising health care costs. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Your Due Diligence HR Compliance Checklist

HR Digest

To make things easier for you, we’ve split up this HR compliance checklist into key human resources functions so it’s easier to delegate tasks to the right departments and people. Here’s what you need to include: Review budget and allocations to prevent overspending. Training & Development. HR Compliance Checklist.

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Employee Engagement Drives Health Care Quality and Financial Returns

Harvard Business Review

Among the many changes ushered in with the new health care law is the shift to value-based purchasing, which ties a system’s Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to the quality of the services it provides. These broad drivers are, in fact, common to most of our clients across the health care industry. A Case in Point.

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The Big Picture of Business: Been There, Done That

Strategy Driven

Business development. Everyone knows that dentists, nurses, social workers and respiratory therapists are all health care professionals. Human resources management. In budgeting for and pricing consulting services, budget for consulting at the start of the fiscal year, averaging 10 percent of gross sales.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

They develop action plans. Business planning (analysis, forecasting, budgeting…). Move towards developing a long-term relationship with a single supplier. Human Resource Management : this is the management of the people you have hired. Training and development. Human Resource Management.