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

Six Disciplines

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. Mackert also serves as a judge for the American Health Care Association, and has written Baldrige case studies used to train examiners at the national and state levels.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The healthcare industry has long relied on traditional, linear models of innovation – basic and applied research followed by development and commercialization. An alternative emerging at healthcare institutions worldwide is human-centered design and co-creation, a set of approaches that can accelerate and humanize healthcare innovation.

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

Harvard Business Review

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. 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. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S.

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Stop Decorating the Fish

Skip Prichard

Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them. Innovation happens because of constraints, not despite them.” Despite all of these efforts, more than double the plastic was produced in 2015 compared to 1998, with only nine percent of it being recycled. Subscribe to Leadership Insights , the blog that transforms.

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Tele-Mentoring Is Creating Global Communities of Practice in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

In my role at the GE Foundation , I am lucky enough to meet pioneers with a global vision for health and sustainable development. Leadership begins with sharing a vision with many people in numerous communities from diverse walks of life. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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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.