The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 14, 2025

New research from Wharton reveals that after Medicaid expansion, wages remained stagnant for the lowest-paid health care workerssuch as aides, orderlies, and sanitation staffwhile the highest-paid workers, including doctors, nurses, and managers, saw their earnings rise by about 2.2% The study compared economic outcomes for over 1.3

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The changing landscape created by the Affordable Care Act has made it difficult, but not impossible to assert control over company health care spend. If the answer is yes, then you may be interested in finding ways where the quality of care and the costs are under your control.

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Cost Health Care Company ROI 244

Rapid BI

MARCH 12, 2024

SWOT analysis for Nurses and Health care environments Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats in a health care environment.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 21, 2014

News item #1 — Hospital health care personnel were not “ready” for the Ebola crisis to arrive. It’s sort of hard to miss the big news of the last few days. News item #2 — Peyton Manning threw for four touchdowns, and broke the all-time touchdown passing record. Both, pretty big news items. So, I […].

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

The employees first movement even reaches into health care. Employees first: Vineet Nayar, CEO of HCL Technologies, Ltd., is committed to employees first. Harvard Business Review published his book, “Employees First, Customers Second.” Spiegelman and Berrett […].

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 7, 2021

“We went from not getting much traction with telepsychiatry, and encountering a lot of reluctance among providers and patients, to having nearly all our care delivered virtually, and offering help to those who need it,” the researchers say. Flexible mental health care. But policy and reimbursement decisions will be important.”.

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Health Care Video Consultative Transportation 80

Innovation Excellence

JULY 21, 2019

The healthcare industry is an ecosystem. So are the companies disrupting it. This article is one more in a series I call Everything Transformed where I’m highlighting the disruptive forces revolutionizing just about every industry on the planet, including packaging, travel and hospitality, industrial safety, and more.

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Health Care Trends Travel Industry 107

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Sectors like construction, real estate, automotive manufacturing, financial services, and health care have been thought of as distinct categories, each operating in its own spheres. McKinsey partners Venkat Atluri and Miklós Dietz illuminate that change in The Ecosystem Economy. The borders between sectors are dissolving.

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Supply Chain Real Estate Automotive McKinsey 392

Engaging Leader

MARCH 24, 2015

In particular, the still-evolving field of behavioral economics provides opportunities for employers to use evidence-based strategies to improve the health of their workforce. As described by National Public Radio, the Vitality Institute “finds ways to pay people to do healthful things” like eating more vegetables or exercising.

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Engaging Leader

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

You probably know about this unfortunate fact of life in health care, but do your employees? You probably know about this unfortunate fact of life in health care, but do your employees? How […] All hospitals are not the same!

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Direct contracts and narrow networks of health care providers offer new ways for employers to control the costs of health care. But many of these arrangements are missing huge opportunities to improve health and deliver true value for the money you spend.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 12, 2025

Most research on refugees looks at their journeys to safety or how they find jobs and health care. While some relocations might reflect better housing or new opportunities, many disrupt community ties, access to education and health care, and financial stability. Less is known about their housing stability.

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Health Care Trends Politics Follow-up 62

Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Just fyi, here is an an article I wrote entitled “ Creating a Life-Giving ‘Connection Culture’ in Health Care Organizations.” ” The article recently appeared in Becker’s Hospital Review. ).

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Care For Your Team’s Mental Health. Mind Your Own Health. Caring for yourself can boost your productivity, memory, focus, creativity, empathy, and decision-making—in other words, your overall effectiveness as a leader.” Seek non-financial help, such as legal, commercial, and medical expertise. Be empathetic and listen.

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Crisis How To Health Care Follow-up 342

General Leadership

MAY 5, 2021

For a single case agreement, you as a health care provider have to advocate for your patients billing to the insurance company. What Conditions Do Patients Have to Meet for a Single Case Agreement? The purpose of SCAs is to address the important needs of the patient; the billing cost majorly rather than an in-network provider.

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Insurance Health Care Cost Company 195

Engaging Leader

APRIL 25, 2014

Many companies are spending huge amounts of health care dollars paying for treatment of medical conditions caused primarily by poor food choices. Many companies are spending huge amounts of health care dollars paying for treatment of medical conditions caused primarily by poor food choices.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Health isn’t the hospital or even the doctor’s office. Health might be a function of nutritious food, clean air, or stress-free work.

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Education Health Care Insurance System 346

Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 29, 2011

Speaking with Kristen made me see how well World Vision connects its workers and donors with those who are need, not only financially to meet their needs for clean water, health care and education, but also connecting them relationally. Here’s an example.

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Letter Health Care Learning-by-Doing Reference 268

Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 28, 2015

By Guest Author Pamela Shaheen DrPH. Healthcare organizations seem to be particularly challenged in reinventing themselves when compared to other industries. . Why is that? It's part of the human condition that, in the face of change, we like things the way they are.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 13, 2014

Workforce health engagement: improving the knowledge, decision-making, and behaviors of employees, their families, and organizational leaders to optimize health outcomes, control medical costs, and enhance workplace productivity. The post WHE01: 5 Components of Workforce Health Engagement appeared first on Engaging Leader.

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Health Care Pharmaceuticals Long-term Education 138

First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 11, 2014

I love student speeches. Not all of them… but enough to matter. In the last week, I’ve heard some pretty good speeches on the Ku Klux Klan, the Vietnam War, Watergate. It’s really fun to hear a speech from a student who knows nothing about her subject except from her own research. Watergate is ancient […]. Randy''s blog entries'

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2019

They look at Africa’s high levels of poverty; its gaps in infrastructure, education, and health care; and its governance problems, and they don’t just see barriers to business, but human issues they feel responsible for solving.” Develop programs to grow talent from within and make gender diversity a priority.

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How To Long-term Short-term Business Model 314

Lead on Purpose

MAY 4, 2013

He has expanded his research and applied his theories to other industries like health care, higher education and even governments and tax systems. His book The Innovators Dilemma has impacted the business world perhaps more than any other book in recent history.

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Christensen Disruptive Innovation Health Care Magazine 225

Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 22, 2011

We’ve been doing more work of late in the health care field, helping organizations such as the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center develop Connection Cultures that boost employee engagement and improve patient outcomes.

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Health Care Development Organization Leadership 170

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 22, 2021

“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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Health Care Teamwork Influence Stress 130

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Just about everyone I’ve talked to since learning about PLOT can come up with plenty of examples in meetings in which PLOT came into play, including: -A Marketing Team: 5 minutes on the review of a new marketing brand strategy and 60 minutes on what to call the strategy; - An HR team: 5 minutes on spiraling company health care costs survey and 90 minutes (..)

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Committee Participative Construction Health Care 277

Women on Business

AUGUST 14, 2012

The industries with the fastest growth and greatest share of women-owned firms are educational services, health care and social assistance, and entertainment and recreation. Plus, revenue has grown more than twice the amount of U.S. population growth during the same period of time.

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Health Care Report Industry Education 206

The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 5, 2025

The study also emphasized the role health care professionals could play in supporting fathers. Many resolved to stay actively involved in their childrens lives and make changes to ensure they were good role models. The fathers also used creative strategies to cope with and regulate their emotions.

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Health Care Diversity Media Creativity 73

Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2020

This book is invaluable not only for coaches but for leaders of all kinds—managers, parents, health care professionals pastors, and anyone who works with to guide others through life changes. Recognizing that a problem exists is quite different from spending a lot of time thinking and talking about it.”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 19, 2012

And if you are in the health care industry and haven't heard about the Baptist Leadership Institute, check them out by clicking on this link. I would love to hear your ideas of how you have used this technique to your benefit and institutionalize it within your company so all managers are consistently listening to employees.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 7, 2013

In the United States, the Health Care Marketplace (also called the “exchange”) is a key feature of the Affordable Care Act (often referred to as “Obamacare”). This short video is a light-hearted, visual approach to what could be a very boring topic.

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Insurance Video Health Care Reference 138

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

During a Q&A session an employee asked if, as a corporate officer, I truly understood the impact of losing health care benefits while a family member was battling cancer. The person was evaluating an early retirement program and was concerned about health care coverage options.

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Power Health Care Insurance Servant Leader 151

Engaging Leader

MAY 2, 2014

Some employers, however, have achieved significant improvement in health metrics and costs, as well as improved employee engagement, productivity, recruitment, safety, and trust in management. That’s successful workforce health engagement!

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Health Care Human Resources Cost Metrics 149

HR Digest

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The CVS workers’ strike in California began on Friday and continued over the weekend, the conflict occurring over matters of pay and health care. These employees state that despite working at the organization for years, they have not been able to comfortably afford the company’s health care plans.

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Health Care Insurance Retail Committee 98

Next Level Blog

APRIL 14, 2020

As I write this, most of us in the United States are marking one month of stay at home and work from home orders to mitigate the public health impacts of the coronavirus. That said, staying home and working from home can present some unexpected challenges.

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Health Care Advice Conference Follow-up 246

Women on Business

APRIL 27, 2012

Republicans in Congress were going so far as to say an employer should be able to have a say in the health care decisions of its female employees. .” “Now, the contraception fight in particular was like being in a time machine. ” “??

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Leadership Health Care Insurance Politics 221

Chart Your Course

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Additionally, companies with high turnover of skilled employees, such as health care workers and hi-tech positions, may have to wait some time to fill that vacant spot. The highest turnover rates were in construction and hospitality. The lowest turnover rates were in government, manufacturing and education.

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Cost Human Resources Human Capital Benchmarking 192