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4 Steps to Sustaining Improvement in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

No one wants to toil away at a health care improvement effort only to see that progress disappear as systems and processes revert to the old way of doing things. Leading health care organizations recognize that improving care isn’t enough; having a systematic approach to sustaining improvement is equally important.

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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. The Motives of the Pilot’s Members.

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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. HR Compliance Checklist. General Tasks. Company Compliance.

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

Ask Atma

Business planning (analysis, forecasting, budgeting…). Human Resource Management : this is the management of the people you have hired. Wikipedia had 195 pages listed under the related subject of ‘organizational studies and human resource management’. Human Resource Management. Risk assessment.

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The Internet of Things Will Change Your Company, Not Just Your Products

Harvard Business Review

In addressing the billion-dollar adherence problem, Vitality (since acquired by NANTHEALTH ) considered the interests of the players in the diverse ecosystem, including pharmaceutical companies, retail pharmacies, and health care providers. Human resources. These may involve new areas for the company (e.g.,