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Slack Is Needed If The Digital Transformation Of Healthcare Is To Succeed

The Horizons Tracker

. “It has provided a catalyst for patients and healthcare professionals to adopt digital health solutions, such as mobile healthcare applications, in the context of social distancing, mask-wearing and stay-at-home guidance.” By far the most common answer was time. times the rate of their peers who didn’t suffer in the same way.

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Cooperation and Outward Spiraling Success Loops

Mike Cardus

The finance team in a Health Care Company. The finance team in groups of 3 flip charted those responses. We discussed who is getting expenses and reports in on time AND specifically how the finance people made that happen. They did that and created an AMAZING Finance Department Knowledge System.

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Giving Seriously Ill Patients More Choices About Their Care

Harvard Business Review

Nearly everyone in health care wants to cut waste and reduce unnecessary costs — until the conversation turns to advanced chronic illness and end-of-life care. Fears about “pulling the plug on granny,” no matter how ill she may be, have slowed progress toward value-based 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. Insight Center.

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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. One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. Gain senior leadership support.

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How We Transformed Emergency Care at Our Hospital

Harvard Business Review

Medicine is fraught with anachronistic administrative structures, as well as competing and redundant decision-making processes involving many stakeholders (the hospital, doctors, nurses, compliance, finance, and others) who often work in silos and have differing goals. Leading Change in Health Care. Insight Center.

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Case Study: An Angel Investor with an Agenda

Harvard Business Review

Aside from stocks, he dabbled in an activist brand of angel investing: holding large stakes and board seats in several start-up health care businesses, all based in Spain. He pulled a document from his briefcase and handed it to her. She found a bench and pulled the document out of her purse. Take it home.