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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

When redesigning the new and expanded emergency room at the Mayo Clinic’s Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota, Mayo leaders didn’t just want to add more rooms and square feet. The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. and Patricia E.

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Fix the Handful of U.S. Hospitals Responsible for Out-of-Control Costs

Harvard Business Review

In May 2013, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released CMS Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MEDPAR) inpatient data that contain discharge information for 100% of Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries using hospital inpatient services. The variations were extraordinary. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Is the Confidence Gap Between Men and Women a Myth?

Harvard Business Review

” Famously, in 2013, Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook and a billionaire, published a book in which her advice for working women was to tell them to “lean in.” It also reflects how the burden of managing a gender-diverse workplace is placed on the female employees themselves.