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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Decentralized departmental budgets, therefore, lead to considerable under-investment in innovative technologies that create benefits across the entire cycle of care. The IPU is an essential component of the value-based care model advocated by Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter. Heads of the various service lines/IPUs (e.g.,