Coaching Tip

JANUARY 19, 2013

Now companies from software and health-care providers to manufacturers are radically remaking that model, shifting from expensive field staffs to more cost-efficient employees who use phones and computers to reach customers. Do you use a proven sales process? Robert Louis Stevenson said, “ Everyone lives by selling something.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. What we describe as a "health care system" is no system at all. And this complexity happens within a single health care delivery organization.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

It is a joint project between the Royal College of Art and Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London where designers and engineers can work in close contact with clinicians to identify challenges and provide solutions. Health Care’s New Frontier. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum. Challenges.

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Consistent with Value Based Health Care principles , HOI and RI measure and track their outcomes and costs for every patient’s cycle of care. But both extend their outcomes measurement far beyond these common measures to include pre- and post-operative patient outcomes specific to the medical conditions they treat (e.g.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

We then plop them into an ICU or operating room and hope that they somehow work together. However, clinicians must consult each one individually, rather than seeing a unified display of information from them. While this is new for health care, it has become routine in other complex, high-risk fields.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

These individuals help clients by following up after leaving a home health care provider. They keep track of appointments, record notes, and coordinate care providers. . Case Manager . Being a case manager is one of the entry-level human resources jobs with high rewards. Customer Service Representative .

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2015

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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CO2

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2014

One of the main justifications for the mergers and acquisitions sweeping the health care industry is greater integration between the physicians and teams that care for patients. We chose to support independent medical centers by creating the Mayo Clinic Care Network. But consolidation does not ensure integration.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The shift from volume-based to value-based health care is inevitable. Although that trend is happening slowly in some communities, payers are increasingly basing reimbursements on the quality of care provided, not just the number and type of procedures. Tell us what health-care content you’d like to see more of from HBR.

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Miles Anthony Smith

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Become a Successful Consultant Many choose to become a consultant for their first home business adventure. Being a consultant for an established company is a great way for individuals to build career skills while maintaining control over their success.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

M’s daughter, was aware that he had signed an advance directive — a document detailing his end-of-life preferences — let alone that it was available at his primary care physician’s office, a few miles away. This uncomfortable scenario will sound familiar to most health care professionals. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 15, 2015

Here are some examples of Collaborations: Parties and consultants involved in taking a company public work together as a team. A group of consultants offer their collective talents to clients on a contract basis. A group of consultants offer their collective talents to clients on a contract basis.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Innovating for Value in Health Care. In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. Insight Center.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 31, 2011

area, a move it describes as “driven largely by health care reform, which demands an integrated regional network.&# Many established actors in the health care industry – including insurers, brokers and providers – are searching for ways to increase their market clout. Johns Hopkins is not alone. .&#

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The pressures for fundamental change in health care have been building for decades, but meaningful change has been limited while the urgency of change only grows. There is only one real solution, which is to dramatically increase the value of health care. And with such deep societal concerns about health care spending?

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

And, you operate in a fishbowl. He holds a BA in Philosophy and History from Colorado College and an MBA in Health Care Administration from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Year after year, Forbes ranks N2Growth as one of the best Management Consulting and Search Firms. Founders tend to be wildly passionate.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

By William Shea, Vice President, Cognizant Business Consulting’s Healthcare Practice; Jagan Ramachandran, Director, Cognizant Business Consulting’s Healthcare Practice. For health insurers, this customer centricity is an imperative.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. PM Images/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

To do that, the team next looked inside and outside the health care for ideas about how to improve the hospital’s service. Innovating for Value in Health Care. From the start, planners kept a tight rein on costs, in part because the hospital worked with no outside consultants or high-priced designers.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 6, 2017

Astronaut training and software-based procedures changed accordingly to ensure the most current and effective medical care was available. Astronauts, doctors, nurses, and Mission Control personnel learn to acquire good operational communication skills through classes, practice, and scenario-based simulations.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

If the person(s) responsible for managing are able to look at the eighteen points above and determine they are more or less in place, they are operating at the most fundamental or beginner’s level of management. employee interaction and co-operation. stress and health. reducing health care costs. time management.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2015

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. At first, we worked with RIC as a consultant but then became its partner in 2009. Leading Change in Health Care. However, the evidence supporting mergers is uncertain at best.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Leaders in today’s complex health care systems need better processes and systems for aligning day-to-day, clinical-care activities with the strategic goals of their organizations. Transforming Health Care. FTE, or six hours of clinical care per day). Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 10, 2017

I’ve had the opportunity, over the last two decades, to immerse myself in some of the world’s most creative, energetic, and productive workplaces, from health care to financial services, from Silicon Valley to Madison Avenue. But this workplace elevates the needs of employees above all other constituencies.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

More than 80% of our work is done by teams of consultants and staff who operate out of their home offices. By spending up to 42 hours researching and interviewing a given candidate, we take great care to ensure that we find and hire the right people. The advisory firm we work for is one such company.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Communication is essential for any successful relationship, including the one between a provider and her patient; however, social, economic, behavioral, and even care system barriers can weaken that connection, which may result in delayed or poor quality care. Leading Health Care Innovation. The Solution. The Next Steps.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Leaders of many companies — in industries ranging from contract manufacturing, and software services to consulting and health care — tell us the same thing: “We want to move up the value chain.” make your own operations more efficient. create the opportunity to invent new operations.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

companies were making progress on the operations front, but now they seem to have lost their way—and business schools are in a position to help set them right again. Clearly, well-run operations and careful talent management went hand-in-glove. A few decades ago, U.S. Let me explain.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 5, 2018

How would we deliver care to a population overburdened with severe mental illness, food insecurity (the lack of consistent access to enough food to lead an active, healthy life) and early-onset chronic diseases — and do so in locations as disparate as Tennessee and Iowa? The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Boosting the productivity of health care is essential, given how fast this sector is growing. Health-care spending already accounts for 10% of GDP in developed economies and an average of 6% of GDP in the four leading emerging economies — Brazil, China, India, and Russia. We disagree.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Technical developments tend to grab the headlines in health care. Predictive analytics , telemedicine , electronic health records — technology is rightly seen as a transformative force in health delivery. Transforming Health Care. Teacept/iStock. But it’s not the only one. Dominant patients.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2015

For most people in health care, being involved in designing a new hospital is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to transform both their work environment and the care they deliver. We attribute much of our success to making patients and frontline health care professionals the true architects of the project.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

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. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Hospital consolidation is on the rise , a trend that shows no signs of abating as providers try to streamline back-end operations and deploy big data analytics in hopes of improving outcomes and lowering costs. She now consults with physicians and hospitals nationwide as they learn to design true patient-centered practices.

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