Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 27, 2014

We’ve all heard a great deal about the power of positive thinking. In a study of health care providers, we found that those who used WOOP were significantly more engaged with their work and less stressed than members of a control group. Human resources Managing people Managing yourself' Why does it work?

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Positioning Human Resources Peer Review Health Care 20

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Energy, agriculture, insurance, retail, human resources — no industry is unaffected. But nowhere is the potential of this new era of opportunity more apparent and exciting than it is in health care. They can pinpoint treatments that sustain health in a more precise way than ever before. They’re also sharing risk.

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Health Care Pharmaceuticals Information Technology Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2015

an RFID system) and a multidiscipline team of clinicians and people from other fields can play in improving the quality and cost of care delivery processes and the steps that can ease the way to applying such an approach. Leading Change in Health Care. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery.

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Technology Mayo Health Care Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

companies manage their supply chains with diligence to ensure suppliers meet their standards for quality and affordability, but the vast majority don’t behave in this fashion when purchasing health care services. Here’s how most employers deal with the health care services they offer their employees and their dependents.

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Health Care Supply Chain Price Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2016

And the necessity of making food decisions many times a day means we can’t devote much processing power to each choice, so our eating behaviors tend to be habit- and instinct-driven. With process, persuasion, and possibilities, you can influence behavior in a specific context. Persuasion. Possibilities.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Among the many changes ushered in with the new health care law is the shift to value-based purchasing, which ties a system’s Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to the quality of the services it provides. These broad drivers are, in fact, common to most of our clients across the health care industry. A Case in Point.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2016

But we think all is not hopeless, and that large employers can play a powerful role in building on what the ACA and other initiatives have achieved to date and accelerate the positive transformation of the U.S. health care system. The solution is to use purchasing power and quality standards to resolve conflicts.

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