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

The Horizons Tracker

A recent report from Dutch consultancy firm Mobiquity shows that the public is broadly supportive of these changes. For instance, a third of UK patients said that they now prefer m-health apps to in-person consultations due to the convenience they provide and the usability they offer. Popular changes.

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Cooperation and Outward Spiraling Success Loops

Mike Cardus

The finance team in a Health Care Company. Was struggling with sales representatives and project managers turning in expense and budget reports on-time…They told me “We have tried everything and our CFO is tired to putting out fires for us.”. The finance team in groups of 3 flip charted those responses.

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business Review

Medicine involves leadership. Nearly all physicians take on significant leadership responsibilities over the course of their career, but unlike any other occupation where management skills are important, physicians are neither taught how to lead nor are they typically rewarded for good leadership. The Future of Health Care.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business Review

Bundled payments in health care have gained favor because they can reduce costs and help improve outcomes. In essence, episodic bundles cover the cost of a patient’s care from start to finish—all the procedures, devices, tests, drugs and services a patient will need for, say, a knee replacement or back surgery.

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Military Leadership Lessons for Training Doctors

Harvard Business Review

But with their focus on clinical disease management and research, training programs actually offer little in the way of true leadership training – authentic experience that helps young doctors develop the leadership skills they will need. Yet, both are made up of large, complex organizations with clear leadership needs at many levels.

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Britain’s Patient-Safety Crisis Holds Lessons for All

Harvard Business Review

Berwick presented the report from the independent National Advisory Group on the Safety of Patients in England ( A Promise to Learn — A Commitment to Act: Improving the Safety of Patients in England ) to Prime Minister David Cameron in London. As the report makes clear from the outset, there are lessons for all leaders in this story.

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Identifying the Skills That Can Help You Change Careers

Harvard Business Review

I made a career switch seven years ago, when I went from working as a reporter at the Financial Times , where I covered health care in the United States, to consulting — advising CEOs in the pharmaceutical industry on thought leadership and articulating their corporate strategies. Consider the legal field.

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