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Employee Turnover – The Hidden Cost

Chart Your Course

You have to watch your competitors and seek to always adapt to changes in the market, and innovate for solutions. According to The Society for Human Resource Management, only 33 percent of businesses track employee turnover, which means 67 percent of businesses are missing out on a huge source of savings and growth.

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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

Will the same happen to health care in the United States? By almost any measure, American health care costs are out of control but the system refuses to change. What if you could provide excellent care at ultra-low prices at a location close to the U.S.? Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Add to Cart.

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. The Future of Health Care. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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4 Steps to Sustaining Improvement in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

No one wants to toil away at a health care improvement effort only to see that progress disappear as systems and processes revert to the old way of doing things. Leading health care organizations recognize that improving care isn’t enough; having a systematic approach to sustaining improvement is equally important.

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How the U.S. Army Personalized Its Mental Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Army’s efforts to come to grips with a dramatic upsurge in war-related behavioral conditions over the past 13 years holds valuable lessons for bringing precision mental health care to the civilian world. Innovating for Value in Health Care. million to 3.3 Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 Insight Center.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Businesses that are serious about reducing health care costs — and improving the health and well-being of their employees — should take a serious look at digital therapeutics, which have the potential to provide effective, low-cost ways to prevent and treat chronic diseases and their consequences. Insight Center.

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Employee Engagement Drives Health Care Quality and Financial Returns

Harvard Business Review

Among the many changes ushered in with the new health care law is the shift to value-based purchasing, which ties a system’s Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to the quality of the services it provides. These broad drivers are, in fact, common to most of our clients across the health care industry. A Case in Point.