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

Six Disciplines

—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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The Health Benefits From Tackling Climate Change Could Be Wasted Due To Inequality

The Horizons Tracker

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.” “If you couple that with an aging population, death rates go up.

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The Mylan EpiPen Debacle: How Tremendous Greed Can Lead to the Demise of a Leader

N2Growth Blog

This is a health care issue.” ” “In one year alone 2015 there were a thousand anaphylactic events in schools and 25% of the time people had no idea they had a known allergy. It costs something to develop the product. This isn’t a Mylan issue.

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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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Doctors Feel Excluded from Health Care Value Efforts

Harvard Business Review

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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3D Printing Is Already Changing Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Software gurus are assessing whether to get into th e development game for 3D printers. And although the industry saw a slight slowdown in 2015, innovations with 3D-printed products are visible among a wide range of industries. Today, you can purchase 3D-printed shoes, 3D-printed jewelry, 3D-printed pens, and even 3D-printed vehicles.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. We know this because in India innovators have found ways to deliver high-quality care to everyone — rich, poor, and virtually penniless — and make money doing it.