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Is This the Hospital That Will Finally Push the Expensive U.S. Health Care System to Innovate?

Harvard Business Review

Will the same happen to health care in the United States? By almost any measure, American health care costs are out of control but the system refuses to change. What if you could provide excellent care at ultra-low prices at a location close to the U.S.? health-care system is striving to get to.”

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What Employers Can Do to Accelerate Health Care Reform

Harvard Business Review

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers.

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Simple Digital Technologies Can Reduce Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Businesses that are serious about reducing health care costs — and improving the health and well-being of their employees — should take a serious look at digital therapeutics, which have the potential to provide effective, low-cost ways to prevent and treat chronic diseases and their consequences. Insight Center.

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This Coalition of 20 Companies Thinks It Can Change U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

For too long, employers have outsourced management of their employees’ health care benefits to those with little incentive to improve value. Engage health systems in change. The HTA “anticipates delivering better health care while reducing costs” through its members’ collective work.

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Corporate Wellness Programs Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

” Its signatories include United Health Care’s Optum subsidiary, Aetna, virtually all the major wellness companies, and Mercer, the largest benefits consulting firm. It is even possible to see a rise in ER and urgent care services.” HERO calculates gross savings as $0.99

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B-Schools Aren’t Bothering to Produce HR Experts

Harvard Business Review

In the 1980s, our organizations learned a great deal about how to improve productivity, quality, and costs from Japanese practices. The State University of New York at Albany is one of the few trying to meet the market, with a program that blends information technology and human resources. So schools need to step up.

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How a Public-Private Partnership Is Saving Lives

Harvard Business Review

More than 75 programs involving a wide range of partners (maternal health experts and providers, NGOs, governments, academia, professional and quality improvement organizations, private sector businesses and scientists) are under way in 30 countries, including the United States. Measure and evaluate. Pursue scientific innovation.