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Master the PRIMES

Leading Blog

The Primes are 46 universal patterns of group behavior that show up every time people join up in groups to solve problems, drive change, and transform systems. Fixing involves corporate improvement programs like Activity Based Costing, Six Sigma and others.”These What kind of problem are you trying to solve?

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Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office

Harvard Business Review

ICCI serves as a center of excellence for measuring the outcomes that are most important for patients, significant for clinicians, and suitable for value-based reimbursement contracts. ICCI’s role subsequently expanded to integrate outcome measurement and reporting into MD Anderson’s new electronic-medical-records system.

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

These efforts were part of the providers’ quest to increase the value of their care delivery — in other words, achieve better outcomes at the lowest-possible cost. Each Mayo Clinic value-improvement project must: gain senior leadership support, including an approved charter. Gain senior leadership support.

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