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Transforming Health Care Takes Continuity and Consistency

Harvard Business Review

In six years of working across 60 countries in search of the perfect health system, I have been fascinated by the fact that every country wants to deliver safe, consistently good, financially sustainable health care, but no one has been able to do it. Leading Change in Health Care. Insight Center.

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Health Care Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Driven by Profit

Harvard Business Review

As health care reform evolves, large public institutions that offer a health safety net have some advantages over privately owned enterprises. Those are all assets in an era of health care reform. I head one of these institutions: Dallas-based Parkland Health and Hospital Systems. A mission-driven payer mix.

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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. Operations. It also took into account their roles in changing patient behavior.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies.

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How We Transformed Emergency Care at Our Hospital

Harvard Business Review

We were on ambulance diversion for at least eight of every 24 hours, often longer. Other local EDs actually had betting pools on how long it would take us to go back on diversion after we came off. Our mantra: Patients care about getting exceptional care, not who pays your salary. Leading Change in Health Care.

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Corporations Need a Better Approach to Public Policy

Harvard Business Review

All companies that operate internationally face a striking dual challenge in dealing with public policy: Nations across the globe enact an ever-changing, ever-expanding array of detailed legislation and regulation to protect workers, consumers, investors, and the public welfare, and these diverse rules shape what companies can and cannot do.

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A Model Stakeholder Strategy from the Garment Industry

Harvard Business Review

Our stakeholder-based strategy rests on the following key pillars: People: The human factor plays a central role in our operations, and thus our business growth must be tied to the growth of our people. Increasing income by giving handouts can only be counted as transfers and is unsustainable.