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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.” Limited transformation. By far the most common answer was time.

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How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change

Harvard Business Review

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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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

health care system. The audience for such innovation wants to be receptive: A recent American Hospital Association (AHA) survey found that 75% of senior hospital executives endorsed the importance of digital innovation. surgery, medicine, oncology), care areas (e.g., Health Care’s New Frontier.

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Understanding the Drivers of the Patient Experience

Harvard Business Review

Many hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic , are implementing a variety of strategies to improve the patient experience —an issue that’s rapidly becoming a top priority in health care. The Accountable Care Act now links performance related to patient-experience metrics to reimbursement. Dig deeper into patients’ experiences.

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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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Military Leadership Lessons for Training Doctors

Harvard Business Review

Several lessons have emerged from this experiment that are applicable in medical training and, indeed, throughout health care. Any patient can tell you that health care providers are uneven at best in their greeting and communication skills. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth.

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Strong Patient-Provider Relationships Drive Healthier Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. Martin’s Point Health Care-Bangor.