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Mackert and Garfield Named to Board of Examiners for 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

Six Disciplines

All members of the board must take part in a nationally ranked leadership development course based on the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence and the scoring/evaluation processes for the Baldrige Award. Mackert has been with Six Disciplines since 2013. organizations, and publicizes successful performance strategies.

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ASA Deming Lecture by Brent James: Long Term View of the Healthcare System

Deming Institute

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. Deming added excessive health care costs to his 7 deadly diseases of Western management.

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Virtually Selling

Coaching Tip

Now companies from software and health-care providers to manufacturers are radically remaking that model, shifting from expensive field staffs to more cost-efficient employees who use phones and computers to reach customers. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, January 14, 2013 and "Ask the Coach". 2013 Business Resolutions.

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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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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. Slowly but surely, these same techniques are being brought to the B2B space, and to health care. Take my company, athenahealth. Insight Center.

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Running a Permanent Campaign for Innovation

Mills Scofield

This Spring 2013 we’ve begun by focusing on how books that can be used as tools to inspire and motivate people to act, to change, and to drive innovation where they are. They’re now focused exclusively on the economy and creating jobs through basic research, infrastructure and oh yes, innovating health care and entitlements.

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Ensuring your business’s data integrity empowers profitable business decisions

Strategy Driven

Data automation softwares enable businesses to preserve their data integrity when updating their archaic data systems and confidently make effective and strategic business decisions that perpetuates growth and success. Health care data security breaches in the U.S. References: Cosgrove, T. JD., & Rosa, C. The Fiscal Times.