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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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Ensuring your business’s data integrity empowers profitable business decisions

Strategy Driven

Breaches of data integrity, or BDIs, can damage a company’s reputation, demographic, product or service, or what’s worse, and often the outcome, finances. Health care data security breaches in the U.S. Takeaways From the 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. Cyber insurance, security and data integrity.

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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business Review

Bundled payments in health care have gained favor because they can reduce costs and help improve outcomes. In essence, episodic bundles cover the cost of a patient’s care from start to finish—all the procedures, devices, tests, drugs and services a patient will need for, say, a knee replacement or back surgery.

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business Review

The Future of Health Care. Despite this lack of focused attention toward development of leadership capabilities in trainees, evidence suggests that leadership quality affects patients, healthcare system outcomes, and finances alike. And the span of leadership and responsibility grows once physicians enter independent practice.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Safety in 10 Minutes a Day

Harvard Business Review

Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. But clinical and nonclinical staff at the Rotterdam Eye Hospital have improved patient care and raised staff morale at a very modest cost: 10 minutes a day and a special deck of cards. Insight Center.

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Running a State Health Insurance Marketplace

Harvard Business Review

In the era of the Affordable Care Act, consumers in the U.S. can now purchase private health insurance in 14 state-based marketplaces (SBMs), along with the federally facilitated marketplace (FFM). By January 1, 2015, all state-based marketplaces were expected to replace federal funding with state-level financing.

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Giving Seriously Ill Patients More Choices About Their Care

Harvard Business Review

Nearly everyone in health care wants to cut waste and reduce unnecessary costs — until the conversation turns to advanced chronic illness and end-of-life care. Fears about “pulling the plug on granny,” no matter how ill she may be, have slowed progress toward value-based care. Insight Center.