The Recovering Engineer

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

As I look at the health care reform debate, I see a number of these behaviors in the way the discussion(s) is (are) proceeding. I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. And, frankly, it makes me sick.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 17, 2024

“One of the defining facets of the modern economy is that we’ve run out of people, and this is likely to stay the same for a long time,” Josh Bersin says “Every aspiration your CEO has will be constrained by people issues and the challenges of growing the company when there aren’t enough people.”

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The health conditions covered are an illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition that involves inpatient care or continuing treatment by a health care provider. . In-person treatment by a health care provider on at least one occasion, which results in a regimen of continuing treatment (e.g.,

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 20, 2023

Changing demographics Concerns are rising in high-income countries as populations age and birthrates decline, as there may not be enough workers to cover the increasing costs of health care and social security. However, there is limited research on people’s long-term working timelines and the factors that affect them.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 28, 2022

An International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans report showed that most North American employers saved $1 to $3 in their overall health care costs for every dollar spent on an employee wellness program. The benefits include savings from decreases in health care costs and employee sick leave. Engagement. We Find Out.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 13, 2014

Workforce health engagement: improving the knowledge, decision-making, and behaviors of employees, their families, and organizational leaders to optimize health outcomes, control medical costs, and enhance workplace productivity. The post WHE01: 5 Components of Workforce Health Engagement appeared first on Engaging Leader.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 15, 2020

The paper describes how there were some 2,000 obstetric mobile phone apps on the market by 2014, but the evidence base behind these apps was usually lagging a long way behind. “This review highlights the gap in knowledge of telehealth-mediated interventions in women’s health care,” the researchers explain.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

What followed next was a quick real-time distillation of long-held thoughts and observations on the nature of true leadership. They’re long-haul grinders – Great leaders are not flash in the pan people; they’re long-haul grinders. They understand that, over the long-run, you can’t get the first without attending to the second.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 9, 2023

They also report that age-based discrimination can lead to early death, poor health, and slowed recovery. Section 188 of the act prevents any discrimination based on age, in terms of programs and activities that benefit from WIA Title I financial assistance. The loyalty long-term employees have to an employer is hard to find.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Focusing on resiliency, Eileen has found great synergy with health care audiences and long term care, educators (as an award-winning educator, she went from teaching kids to grown-ups—who are still like kids), and women’s leadership groups. I quit and never looked back. That was 36 years ago!

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Historically, the Food Bank’s clientele was made up of the working poor – families whose providers work in low wage jobs that don’t pay enough to cover the cost of housing in LA along with other basic expenses like health care, utilities, clothing and food. Make decisions quickly – and as you do, make them with care and compassion.

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Engaging Leader

MAY 2, 2014

Some employers, however, have achieved significant improvement in health metrics and costs, as well as improved employee engagement, productivity, recruitment, safety, and trust in management. That’s successful workforce health engagement!

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 15, 2017

Marianjoy Rehabilitation Hospital , a part of Northwestern Medicine, is an elite performing healthcare organization in terms of patient satisfaction, employee engagement and financial performance. More than 50,000 patients receive care within the Marianjoy service network annually. A life-long learner, Ms. Living the Vision.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

In health care today, the conversation around transparency centers on the consumer. Health care providers must respond with as much information as possible to ensure appropriate care is delivered, quality and safety are top of mind, and patients and their care team can make thoughtful care decisions.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

But the more you know about the types of employee benefits offered by your employer, the better equipped you’ll be to make informed decisions about health care, retirement plans, and other important financial matters. Paid Training and Development: This unique employee benefit is certain to profit a company in the long run.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 24, 2014

Some employers, however, have achieved significant improvement in health metrics and costs, as well as improved employee engagement, productivity, recruitment, safety, and trust in management. That’s successful workforce health engagement!

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 8, 2020

There has long been a suspicion that the Covid-19 pandemic has had a very unequal impact across society, with ethnic minorities more likely to suffer the health implications, and the poor more likely to suffer the economic implications. New research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests things are even worse than feared.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Continuous optimization, both on the operational side and the customer side, is good and important -- in the short term. Whatever is currently at the core of the company today, making up the majority of the top and bottom lines, won’t remain the same in the long run. It pays the rent.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 12, 2020

This is especially so for something as crucial as Covid, where clear demographic divides have been identified in terms of vulnerability. I have no idea what the potential long-term complications of these treatments may be. “I think the hardest question to address is what’s the harm? We don’t know.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Reid talk about what he learned in writing his book about health care, The Healing of America. Reid travelled around the world twice – once on his publisher’s dime and again to film a documentary for PBS – to learn about how health care is delivered in different countries. We have the best health care system in the world.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

At Sanford Health, a $4.5 billion rural integrated health care system, we deliver care to over 2.5 Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Improving Access to Care. Sven Krobot/EyeEm/Getty Images. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 4, 2023

HR Rules for Terminating Employees If the first response to an employee making an error is termination then there is clearly a long way for the company to go, in order to have any employees at all. If the employee is exiting on good terms and there is the option of rehiring at a later stage, make the offer to the employee.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Using simple pictures drawn on the back of a napkin, Dan Roam explained American health care, helped Peet’s Coffee earn a billion dollars, and is working with Google to redefine how the world thinks about the internet. Persuasive storytelling is one of the most important key skills in almost every profession.

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HR Digest

MARCH 26, 2024

With no time to rest and recover, a small illness often turns into a prolonged health condition, affecting their health and their ability to work. According to WellSteps , the cost of “presenteeism,” or poor productivity despite being at work, costs 2-3 times more than what one might spend on direct health care expenses.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

health care system spends almost a third of its resources — $750 billion annually — on unnecessary services and inefficient care. These tools are now being used across the continuum of care, from disease surveillance to chronic disease prevention to identifying patients who are at risk of deterioration.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2017

In 2014, the “Foreigners under Temporary Protection” regulation granted refugees free access to public services such as education and health care. It did not include a vision for long-term integration; nobody in Turkey foresaw the duration and severity of Syria’s humanitarian crisis.

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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

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. Do away with the game of quarterly earnings guidance, and instead articulate to investors your “strategic framework for long-term value creation.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2017

health care system is begging for disruption. Hundreds of millions of Germans, French, English, Scandinavians, Dutch, Danish, Swiss, Canadians, New Zealanders, and Australians get comparable or better health services for half of what we pay. Paul Taylor/Getty Images. It costs way too much ($3.3 Could this be it?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2018

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. Health Care’s New Frontier. How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. Bogdan Dreava/EyeEm/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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HR Digest

MAY 22, 2019

Heavy drinking due to long hours and stress makes the alcoholic prone to a slate of physical, mental and social problems. There are specific professions that are more likely to contain problem drinkers than others, and common factors include high-stress environments, long or inconsistent hours and underlying psychological or physical pain.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Let’s hope that’s true for “value” in health care. Where other mantras – such as quality or managed care – have failed to galvanize the system’s diverse stakeholders, value may have a chance. What seems special about the term is that, seemingly simple, it is actually complex and subtle. And it is intuitively appealing.

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Women on Business

JULY 12, 2012

Those able to get preventative medical care will be healthier and miss less days from work. Putting parks in communities means children can exercise, reducing childhood obesity and long term health issues of an adult working population.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The health care system in the United States, with its technological prowess and massive infrastructure, often serves as a reference point for rapidly developing economies around the world while they build their own medical systems. One major reason for the rapid cost inflation in health care is burgeoning hospital construction.

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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

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

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. The ramifications for traditional care providers typically dominated by hospitals is going to be big and may happen fast. Carol Yepes/Getty Images.

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