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Intelligent Redesign of Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Kaplan and Michael E. Intelligent redesign starts, therefore, with teams of clinicians and business analysts working side by side to examine processes of care. Project team members with finance expertise contribute by supplying the cost rate for each person and equipment involved in the care processes.

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Strong Patient-Provider Relationships Drive Healthier Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

“The proper goal for any health care delivery system is to improve the value delivered to patients … To properly manage value, both outcomes and cost must be measured at the patient level,” Harvard’s Robert Kaplan and Michael Porter tell us. SCF’s focus on relationships is mirrored in its approach to finance.

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

In the last six years, a Harvard Business School team has worked with dozens of health care organizations to help them understand the true costs of their treatments for many medical conditions. One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. Select a project team.

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