First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 11, 2014

I love student speeches. Not all of them… but enough to matter. In the last week, I’ve heard some pretty good speeches on the Ku Klux Klan, the Vietnam War, Watergate. It’s really fun to hear a speech from a student who knows nothing about her subject except from her own research. Watergate is ancient […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

—The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

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Quality Health Care Case Study Education 70

Engaging Leader

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

You probably know about this unfortunate fact of life in health care, but do your employees? You probably know about this unfortunate fact of life in health care, but do your employees? How […] All hospitals are not the same! In 2013, 1437 hospitals across the country completed The Leapfrog Hospital Survey.

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Cost Education Health Care Survey 183

Deming Institute

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Skip Steward, Chief Improvement Office (CIO) for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in Memphis, Tennessee is the latest guest on the Deming Podcast ( download the podcast ). A friend of mine the other day told me that “improving the work is the work.” ” I reflect on Dr. Deming quite often. Skip Steward.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 16, 2024

.” Serious implications The research builds on previous studies that have shown that chronic unemployment can have significant health implications, both due to the loss of health care for the unemployed and also the stress involved.

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Health Care Survey Stress Marketing 59

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

“For patients, the message is clear and reassuring: Telemedicine is an effective and efficient way of receiving many kinds of health care,” the researchers explain.

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Health Care Transportation Analysis Efficiency 104

Lead from Within

JANUARY 7, 2021

Provide (or advocate for) mental health resources at your company. Do everything in your power—ideally through your employee health care plan—to provide accessible, affordable mental health services such as counseling, therapy, and treatment for addiction. The One Quality Every Leader Needs To Succee d.

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How To Crisis Crisis Management Seminar 218

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Indeed, clinical trials are underway to test whether such a service could become part of official mental health care. Conflicting results Another review from the University of Warwick found that while some mental health chatbots were able to deliver positive results, there was also a high risk of bias and of conflicting results.

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Health Care Crisis Constraint Cost 103

Lead from Within

DECEMBER 22, 2020

One of the best ways to support employees’ mental health is to provide access to mental health services such as counseling, therapy, and addiction treatment. If your health care plan doesn’t include these services, work to set up discounted programs with counselors and experts. Provide resources.

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Health Care Discount Stress Information 218

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 14, 2023

. “The health burden is unevenly distributed across countries and disproportionately borne by the global south. To make credible projections of future global health, we created an integrated modeling framework that combines air quality simulations with macro-level sociodemographic drivers like global population and economic development.”

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Globalization Health Care Trends Project 86

The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 28, 2021

We know that health care work environments and job demands have a profound effect on the health and well-being of those delivering care, and they may even influence the quality of health care received by patients,” the researchers say.

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Health Care Stress Consultative Innovation 110

Next Level Blog

MARCH 23, 2021

If you’re wearing a bio-monitoring device like an Apple Watch, Fitbit or Oura ring, API’s can pull data on your heart rate, daily step count and sleep quality into the mix as well. The result is an amazing amount of information you can use to track your health, pursue fitness goals and make better lifestyle choices based on your metrics.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 17, 2024

While both meaningful work and a hefty salary were considered significant qualities on their own, when individuals were asked to choose between the two, they consistently leaned towards jobs that paid well but didn’t offer much personal meaning, as observed in six of the studies. .

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 9, 2020

New research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst highlights how this stress affects the quality of care staff are able to give their patients. “These physicians care deeply about their patients. “There’s a lot of work to be done.”

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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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Health Care Quality Report Environment 11

The Horizons Tracker

MAY 14, 2020

This problem is due to the fact that quality of care has always taken precedence over cost—and rightly so,” the researchers say. However, with increasing pressure on health care organizations, they are trying to find ways to jointly increase quality and reduce costs.”. Unplanned costs.

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Operations Planning Health Care Cost 121

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 13, 2020

Therefore, marketing aims to sensitize the public on the importance of good health and excellent health care. However, in health care, consumers get a service, such as laboratory tests, in exchange for their time and effort. That is because there are legal restrictions in health care , such as insurance guidelines.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 11, 2011

Customer service and continuous quality improvement have always been important. As organizations struggle to grow revenues and reduce costs in our challenging economic times, service/quality is becoming even more critical. In high service/quality organizations, all three rings are strong and growing. Perceived value is high.

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Quality Six Sigma TQM Health Care 56

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2020

million health care workers by the year 2025. With these persistent shortages in the health care sector, there’s a need for stakeholders to focus on innovative ways of bridging the gap in human capital. The health care sector is not an exemption. Out of Hospital Care. Artificial Intelligence.

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Trends Industry Health Care Human Capital 66

HR Digest

MAY 29, 2023

Advantage of using fringe benefit is to help the employers to recruit, motivate, and keep high-quality people. Some of the mandatory fringe benefits that employers are required to provide: Health insurance The health care plans cover visits to primary care physicians, specialist doctors, and emergency care.

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Deming Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Deming Consults on Quality for Sir William Osler” by Brent James , Institute for Health Care Delivery Research. The beginning of the talk provides an overview of the huge macroeconomic risks of the health care system in the USA. 2012, Dr. Jeff Wu: Quality Improvement from Autos to Nanotechnology.

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Deming Long-term System Health Care 31

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

Situational Leadership In Nursing and Healthcare It is not uncommon to hear roles in the health-care industry referred to as “callings,” and with good reason! Health-care providers are expected to deliver consistent, high-quality care while frequently being asked to work extended shifts under high stress.

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Situational Leadership Industry Leadership Health Care 52

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2018

Will the same happen to health care in the United States? By almost any measure, American health care costs are out of control but the system refuses to change. What if you could provide excellent care at ultra-low prices at a location close to the U.S.? health-care system is striving to get to.”

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Health Care System Innovation Price 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

This is especially true in health care. As health care organizations are being pressured to cut costs, reduce medical errors, and adopt both standardized processes and new innovations, providers are being asked to give up established and comfortable ways of working. The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Health Care Innovation Resistance CEO 10

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

That was precisely what new research from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign highlights, with industry concentration linked to declines in both job quality and wage levels. “When we think about wage stagnation, wage inequality and job quality in the U.S., Benefiting consumers.

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Industry Supply Chain Constraint Retail 107

The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 3, 2021

New research from North Carolina State University and Syracuse University explores some of the motivating factors behind people’s use of chatbot technology for mental health care. in recent years, and that can cause increases in the need for mental health services,” the researchers explain.

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Sharpe Health Care Motivation Information 109

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In 1980, the national expenditure on health care in the United States was just over 9% of Gross Domestic Product. According to data published by the Kaiser Family Foundation, workers’ earnings rose by 47% from 1999 to 2012, but their contribution to health insurance premiums during that time went up by 180%.

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Health Care Constraint Budgeting Quality 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2018

health care system. The reason: It could liberate health care data for game-changing new uses, including empowering patients as never before. Let them share it with whomever they wish in the course of their own health care journey. Health Care’s New Frontier. Insight Center.

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Health Care System Industry Technology 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. In the years since, “performance” has become more complex, now including dozens or even hundreds of quality measures.

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Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 12

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. Sven Krobot/EyeEm/Getty Images. million people in 300 communities across 250,000 square miles.

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Health Care Short-term Maturity System 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. The Future of Health Care. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

It must be done judiciously, because if a person is less qualified than a task requires, it will hurt quality and may add to costs if rework becomes necessary. The task shifting logic also applies to health care. health care. health care. Three task-shifting ideas from India are worth considering.

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Health Care Cost Govindarajan Transportation 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2017

hospitals and health care groups have experimented over the past decade with new management structures and alternative payment models to provide quality health care at lower cost. It may sound odd to suggest that the industry overlooked physicians as it set about reshaping the health care system.

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Health Care Resistance Cost Quality 8

The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The research discovered clear gender segregation across both occupation and industry, which creates an unequal playing field in terms of job quality for low and middle-skilled men and women. “Health care jobs are the new working-class jobs,” they conclude. The gender divide. ”

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Health Care Class Skills Construction 52

Deming Institute

MAY 14, 2015

Edwards Deming wrote Some Statistical Logic in the Management of Quality to fill in some of the missing links in the use of statistical methods, with special reference to responsibilities at the management level for effective mobilization of statistical knowledge and skills. This hand drawn control chart by W.

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Deming Quality Management System 28

The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

This situation can be compounded by the lack of high-quality and affordable healthcare. The researchers believe this approach can be more effective than current methods, which they argue often exclude local communities. The lack of economic alternatives can often then force these local communities to resort to illegal logging.

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Health Care Discount Project Globalization 89

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2018

health care system, but our five-year research project in India and the U.S. Almost every high-performing health care organization we studied was led by a medical professional (something that academic research has also found ). And because they are first-rate doctors, they never lose sight of quality. Add to Cart.

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