HR Digest

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Employee rights and responsibilities (including privacy, health care, social security, leave policy, etc.) . Be clear about the employee handbook; for example, a manual of company policies and procedures would be different from a list of employee expectations. . Company philosophy . Job requirements . Dress code .

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2018

It sounds completely impossible, but it is not: All we have to do is put aside the moral and political debates about Obamacare and recognize our health care system for what it is: a burdensome and unnecessary tax on corporate America. trillion — more than three times as much — in health insurance costs.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 29, 2011

Speaking with Kristen made me see how well World Vision connects its workers and donors with those who are need, not only financially to meet their needs for clean water, health care and education, but also connecting them relationally. Here’s an example.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 10, 2014

Or, if you have a key practice or mindset — for example, lean manufacturing — how do you […]. Or, if you have a key practice or mindset -- for example, lean manufacturing -- how do you spread it throughout your organization? That’s a question that Starbucks certainly struggled to answer. But it’s really hard.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

This is especially true in health care. As health care organizations are being pressured to cut costs, reduce medical errors, and adopt both standardized processes and new innovations, providers are being asked to give up established and comfortable ways of working. The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

policy and institutions is unclear, but their approach to health care reform will have profound impacts on the health and well-being of the American people and on the U.S. Trump’s stated goal is to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), but the details of his plan are still unknown.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

Consider that in just the first two months of 2018, 24 health care provider organizations reported data breaches affecting over 1,000 patients each, a 60% increase over the same time period last year. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Insight Center.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 10, 2021

For example, we can see data dashboards, organization charts, spreadsheets, new strategic plans, or the latest new technology trend bouncing around social media. For example, we may have some data, but we think that if we just had more data the breakthrough solution will magically reveal itself. Kristen Cox. Kristen Cox.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Many of those working in the consolidating health care industry will immediately validate several of the authors’ key findings, including: Bureaucracy is growing, not shrinking. Transforming Health Care. Kelvin Murray/Getty Images. What about solutions? ” I beg to differ. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. With the advent of digital imaging, Kodak was outpaced by other companies that could better achieve consumer goals. The analogous situation in health care is that whereas doctors and hospitals focus on producing health care, what people really want is health.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Providing health care in rural regions presents unique challenges. And vast distance can hinder the dissemination of best practices and coordination of care. Key to its success in rural care delivery is that we can rapidly disseminate common decision-support tools across the entire network. Transforming Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Caring for the health and well-being of our fellow humans has always been viewed as a combination of art and science. With all the recent advances in technology, there is no doubt the health care industry as a whole gets an “A” in science. Some dysfunction may always exist in our health care systems.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The company begins with a goal, such as safely carrying 250 passengers nonstop from New York to London in under six hours, and follows a disciplined approach to identify the components and subsystems that meet those requirements. While this is new for health care, it has become routine in other complex, high-risk fields.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

It’s what health care might seem like to doctors, patients, and regulators around the world as new methods in machine learning offer more insights from ever-growing amounts of data. Many more such examples are on the way. Health care regulators must also explore new ways to govern the use of these methods.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In this article, I’d like to share the insights we’ve gleaned from the model’s first full year of operation, which hopefully organizations in health care and many other industries will find useful. It ensures alignment of goals, resources, and people. Continuous improvement is a constant quest.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Despite the current uncertainty surrounding the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health care leaders must not let debates over access detract from what needs to happen regardless of the legislation’s fate: Their organizations must improve the value of care they deliver. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Businesses that are serious about reducing health care costs — and improving the health and well-being of their employees — should take a serious look at digital therapeutics, which have the potential to provide effective, low-cost ways to prevent and treat chronic diseases and their consequences. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Calls for teamwork in health care are as persistent as they are hard to heed. For years, the basic model for managing coordination in health care delivery has relied on what organizational scholars called role-based coordination. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Leaders in government, business, and health care must address these persistent disparities at the national, state, and local levels, as both an ethical and an economic imperative. Promote a diverse health care workforce. Deliver patient-centered care. years in 1970 to 3.8

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Transforming Health Care. There were three design goals: engaging participants, making a good initial impression on them, and making it simple for them to participate in the program. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic. How leading providers are delivering value for patients. Design the service for the patient.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2017

The care team ultimately found him a temporary rehabilitation facility where he recovered for two weeks until he was ready to go home. Unfortunately, this collaboration tends to be the exception rather than the norm in many health care organizations. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 2, 2013

This happened recently with an team of 46 Directors, Managers and Supervisors of a health care organization. Implementation of goals, roles, and procedures leading to decreased interpersonal struggles in the team. What examples do you have of team building that has the lessons learned built in? What do you think?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

These observations suggest an interesting opportunity for making health care better, and even more efficient – if health care organizations can figure out how to create an “epidemic of empathy.”. What would an epidemic of empathy look like? The time for such an epidemic has arrived.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Some remote workers, security guards, health care professionals and call center agents of companies that offer 24/7 customer support have to work the graveyard shift. Here’s an example: let’s say you wake up at seven in the evening to prep for your graveyard shift. Then, you go to sleep on or before 11 a.m.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2018

We invest billions of dollars each year in medicines, new technologies, doctors, and hospitals—all with the goal of improving health, arguably our most prized commodity. health care system woefully underperform relative to those made in health care in other countries. Yet, investments in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

We are a nation that cares for our fellow citizens, yet we have failed to create a health care system that fully meets the needs of people in this country. Health care is fragmented, and the quality of care varies widely, which leads to unsustainable health care spending.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2014

First, they are responsible for contributing a large chunk of patients into the health care system, especially in developed countries like the US. All of our new policies and efforts to provide affordable health care could pale in comparison to the exponentially rising costs associated with these diseases and their demographics.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Health care remains one of the few services that require people to have a face-to-face interaction to obtain access. In January 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a new provider reimbursement code for non–face-to-face health care services for patients who have chronic medical conditions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. health care keeps getting costlier. These astronomical costs are largely due to the way competition works in American health care. Transforming Health Care. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2015

Health care organizations need to re-think their concept of strategy to thrive in a marketplace driven by competition on value – how well they improve patient outcomes and reduce costs. What are they trying to accomplish when, for example, they publicize surgical success rates or patient experience data and comments?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

As payment and care delivery models shift in the United States from episodic, fee-for-service care toward population health and value-based reimbursement, health care leaders are focused more than ever on patient engagement as a key to driving down costs and improving outcomes. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. Reducing the rate at which health care costs grow, and the proportion of U. health system grew by nearly 75%. Over half of the $2.6

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

For example, before launching a new performance review system this year – dubbed Performance Everyday and hinged on our culture elements – we used crowdsourcing and other tools to hear directly from 3Mers about how to best improve our approach. . How is 3M responding to the COVID-19 crisis? How is 3M responding to the COVID-19 crisis?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2015

In doing so, suggested Jerry Solon, PhD, of the University of Pittsburgh, it is possible to start making real inferences about the inputs (health care services) that generate an output (treating a patient). health care. The second and less obvious reason is the state of the wiring of all health care transactions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Kathleen Wilson-Thompson: Ensuring the health and safety of our team members, customers and communities is our top priority, and I will provide just a few examples. We implemented a number of safety measures and follow local government guidance (whether the CDC in the U.S. How would you describe your personal approach to leadership?

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