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How Digital Health Care Can Help Prevent Chronic Diseases Like Diabetes

Harvard Business Review

Its success demonstrates the potential of digital health services, and its approach can serve as a model for applying such services to other chronic diseases. DPPs typically include in-person meetings of a small group of prediabetic adults who, with the guidance of a health coach, progress through a diet and lifestyle curriculum.

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Understanding the Drivers of the Patient Experience

Harvard Business Review

Many hospitals, including the Cleveland Clinic , are implementing a variety of strategies to improve the patient experience —an issue that’s rapidly becoming a top priority in health care. The Accountable Care Act now links performance related to patient-experience metrics to reimbursement. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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What to Know Before You Sign a Payment-by-Results Contract

Harvard Business Review

Health care. And the Health Care Transformation Task Force , a newly formed coalition of private insurers and provider organizations in the U.S., And providers want the flexibility to deliver outcomes in the best, most innovative, and most efficient way possible without being micromanaged by the customer.

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The Happiest People Pursue the Most Difficult Problems

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Similarly, Procter & Gamble''s Pampers team in Nigeria find happiness facing the problem of infant mortality and devising solutions, such as mobile clinics that sent a physician and two nurses to areas lacking access to health care. Social bonds and a feeling of membership augment the meaning that comes from values-based work.

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How to Make a Great First Impression

Harvard Business Review

First impressions matter so much because they happen fast, and they are stubborn , says Whitney Johnson , the author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work. Another way to build rapport is to, “find a bond or a point of commonality,” says Clark. It can be a good way to uncover common bonds.

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Stop Paying Executives for Performance

Harvard Business Review

Particularly in business schools, various Finance and Accounting professors have argued for including more long-term incentives, and for replacing variable pay packages that largely consist of stock options with a mix of bonds and stocks. We argue in favor of abolishing pay-for-performance for top managers altogether.

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

Those who are at work on Thanksgiving — even if it is virtual work online — can make special bonds with each other. Those who are at work on Thanksgiving — even if it is virtual work online — can make special bonds with each other. Second, reach out to the people youre with.