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Building a Culture of Transparency in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

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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Engaging Medical Specialists in Improving Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

It is critical to have physicians intimately involved in these efforts, yet hospitals and health systems struggle to engage them in improving care. Furthermore, much of the focus on health care redesign has been on primary care physicians, despite the fact that specialty care is responsible for the majority of health care spending.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters.

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The Sequestration Cuts that Are Harming Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The cuts have caused economic and other distress across the nation, including serious impacts within the health care sector. Consider the following impacts of sequestration on Federal health agencies and activities: Cuts to the FY13 budget: $1.71 Among the effects: 703 fewer new and competing research projects.

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Using Data to Increase Patient Engagement in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Something similar is just starting to happen in health care. health-care industry in action, one billing claim or specialist referral at a time. health-care industry in action, one billing claim or specialist referral at a time. Take my company, athenahealth. Insight Center. Growing Digital Business.

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How the U.S. Can Reduce Waste in Health Care Spending by $1 Trillion

Harvard Business Review

health care system in ways big and small that would either build on or radically revamp the Affordable Care Act (ACA). We reviewed four strategies: the current health care system’s trajectory as is; comprehensive demand-side reform; aggressive supply-side reform; and a combination of demand-side and supply-side reform.

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Morning Advantage: Disruptive Innovation Made Easy

Harvard Business Review

Health Costs Are Actually Not Spiraling Out of Control (PwC). Growth in health care spending in the United States has slowed considerably since 2009. PwC's Health Research Institute projects medical costs will increase 7.5% for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth.