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

The Horizons Tracker

Nowhere has this been more so than in healthcare, where digital technologies were used in a wide range of ways, from treating Covid and non-Covid patients alike under social distancing measures, to utilizing m-health for contact tracing and diagnosis of the virus. Popular changes. Limited transformation.

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10 High-Paying Jobs You Can Get Without a College Degree

HR Digest

If you love technology and developing computer programs, this is the career for you. Software developers can work in many different fields, including finance, education, information technology, health care, construction, and more. Finance & Accounting Manager. Graphic Designer. Do you love graphics?

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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. In our group at Merck, we are witnessing this opportunity firsthand as we collaborate with start-ups in the areas of digital health, big data, and health IT.

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Ensuring your business’s data integrity empowers profitable business decisions

Strategy Driven

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. Reports, customer transactions, and revenues can all be affected as a result of bad data. Health care data security breaches in the U.S. Retrieved from [link].

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Shifting Finance from Controlling to Improving

Harvard Business Review

Yet this is exactly the challenge facing leaders of the finance function who are asked to help their organization improve the way that work is done. As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. At the center is the customer.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business Review

Not long ago, many services such as tax accounting were delivered episodically and in-person, as most health care still is today. Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. The ideas have also been embraced by public policy makers, health plans, and the general public.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Safety in 10 Minutes a Day

Harvard Business Review

Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. But clinical and nonclinical staff at the Rotterdam Eye Hospital have improved patient care and raised staff morale at a very modest cost: 10 minutes a day and a special deck of cards.