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Slack Is Needed If The Digital Transformation Of Healthcare Is To Succeed

The Horizons Tracker

We know that health care work environments and job demands have a profound effect on the health and well-being of those delivering care, and they may even influence the quality of health care received by patients,” the researchers say.

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What Is the Business of Health Care?

Harvard Business Review

The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. The analogous situation in health care is that whereas doctors and hospitals focus on producing health care, what people really want is health. Health care is just a means to that end — and an increasingly expensive one.

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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

In our group at Merck, we are witnessing this opportunity firsthand as we collaborate with start-ups in the areas of digital health, big data, and health IT. Four dynamics are driving this new era of health care innovation: Finally, there is a financial incentive to innovate.

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Health Care Is an Investment, and the U.S. Should Start Treating It Like One

Harvard Business Review

health care system woefully underperform relative to those made in health care in other countries. spends nearly 7–10% more of its national income on health care than other similar countries and yet life expectancy at birth remains, on average, two to three years lower. Yet, investments in the U.S.

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Building the next leadership pipeline with short-term executive programs in Top B-schools

HR Digest

Therefore, one can choose programs that may offer concentrations or specializations that let students get a specific kind of EMBA, such as an EMBA in health care or hospital management. A finance expert who wants now to expand into marketing or customer dealings can choose from a myriad of short courses that deal in the same fields. .

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Why Doctors Need Leadership Training

Harvard Business Review

As more evidence shows that leadership skills and management practices positively influence both patient and healthcare organization outcomes, it’s becoming clear that leadership training should be formally integrated into medical and residency training curricula. The Future of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Caption Contest 2010.3

Chris Brady

Posted by: Allan Gainer | February 23, 2010 at 01:41 PM Bubba says, "By golly Cletus, it's the making of the next Obamacare health care proposal." Posted by: JustinArndt | February 23, 2010 at 01:45 PM Bubba says, "By golly Cletus, it's the making of the next Obamacare health care proposal."