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A 100-Year Old Journey of Human Resource Management

HR Digest

Image Credit: www.history.com) At Hawthorne Works, a Western Electric factory in Illinois, Elton Mayo conducted a groundbreaking study. Mayo recognized that workers were complex individuals, greatly influenced by the organizational structure around them. However, in the most unlikely of circumstances, a glimmer of hope emerged.

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

In the last six years, a Harvard Business School team has worked with dozens of health care organizations to help them understand the true costs of their treatments for many medical conditions. We believe that others can learn from Mayo’s disciplined approach for value realization projects. test process-improvement suggestions.

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Overcoming Fragmentation in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

America is a nation of innovators and entrepreneurs. More work is needed to achieve the drastic change in market forces that is necessary to create a sustainable health care system. At Mayo Clinic, we have chosen a different path — a path focused on sharing our most scalable product: our knowledge. Addressing Fragmentation.

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Turning Value-Based Health Care into a Real Business Model

Harvard Business Review

How, then, are innovative providers redesigning care so that, despite financial pain in the short term, they achieve long-range success? Costs per member are now $22 higher up front but are also $115 lower overall annually, because of reductions in ER visits and other care. at Mayo in Rochester, Minnesota, compared with 13.2%

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Hospital Coalitions Save Money and Improve Care

Harvard Business Review

Now, because of ever-increasing financial stress and clinical demands, hospitals are engaging in deep forms of collaboration to reduce costs and improve outcomes for patients. The 42 members of this purchasing coalition formed in 2008 include Mayo Clinic, Swedish Covenant Hospital, and Sanford Health.

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The Decline of the Rural American Hospital and How to Reverse It

Harvard Business Review

There are two kinds of health-care innovation: more-for-more and more-for-less. The American health-care system exemplifies the first kind, offering more and more value at higher and higher costs. Despite these high-cost innovations (American consumers spend more on health care than their counterparts anywhere else), U.S.

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Liberating Patients from Mechanical Ventilation Sooner

Harvard Business Review

At the Mayo Clinic, we implemented sedation-weaning and ventilator-weaning protocols and a color-coded communications scheme in the ICU in an effort to more quickly identify mechanically ventilated patients who were able to be awakened and breathe on their own. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.