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How To Develop Employee Handbook

HR Digest

Employee rights and responsibilities (including privacy, health care, social security, leave policy, etc.) . Code of ethics . For an individual, developing a personalized employee handbook allows them to follow specific rules or protocols while working for your small business. . Company philosophy . Job requirements .

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Mackert and Garfield Named to Board of Examiners for 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

Six Disciplines

—The Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has named Casey Mackert, Director of Baldrige Services and Dr. Jan Garfield, Baldrige Client Coach at Six Disciplines Consulting Services in Findlay, Ohio, to the Board of Examiners for the 2015 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

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Task Shifting Could Help Lower Costs in U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

It must be done judiciously, because if a person is less qualified than a task requires, it will hurt quality and may add to costs if rework becomes necessary. The task shifting logic also applies to health care. health care. health care. Three task-shifting ideas from India are worth considering.

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What Health Care Leaders Need to Do to Improve Value for Patients

Harvard Business Review

More and more health care organizations are beginning to track their performance on outcomes – and they’re finding that getting started isn’t easy. So how are today’s health care leaders implementing outcomes measurement in their hospitals and clinics? Leading Change in Health Care.

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Helping Patients Make Peace with Death

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining innovation in health care, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. All patients would designate health care proxies. Patients would be expected to designate a proxy as part of enrolling in health insurance.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

an RFID system) and a multidiscipline team of clinicians and people from other fields can play in improving the quality and cost of care delivery processes and the steps that can ease the way to applying such an approach. Leading Change in Health Care. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery.

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How Do You Know a Great Person When You See One?

Harvard Business Review

The process "has enormous consequences" not for just for aspiring doctors, the Times says, but "also for the entire health care system.". We are trying to weed out the students who look great on paper but haven't developed the people or communications skills we think are important," said Dr. "If people do poorly on the M.M.I.,