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Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office

Harvard Business Review

A “value management office” can greatly enhance an institution’s ability to improve outcomes and costs across the enterprise. ICCI now has five full-time employees with expertise in analytics and project management and three part-time graduate students.

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Lessons from Mayo Clinic’s Redesign of Stroke Care

Harvard Business Review

Facing escalating costs of medications and technology, health care patients and providers in the United States continue to search for opportunities to reduce overall costs while maintaining and improving health care outcomes. Care for these patients could potentially be managed and monitored in the lower-cost NSPCU environment.

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How Hospitals Are Using Patient-Reported Outcomes to Improve Care

Harvard Business Review

Dr. Niazi’s team has used Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to prove that this program is cost effective, and is currently collecting data to assess its impact on patient outcomes. Several features of the program have already been expanded to other providers at Mayo.

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