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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. To avoid this danger requires a discerning talent-management capacity in the human resources department. Patients need to flow through them efficiently or the hospital loses money, often in large amounts.

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11 Things the Health Care Sector Must Do to Improve Cybersecurity

Harvard Business

At the beginning of 2017 Experian predicted that the health care sector would be the most heavily targeted vertical industry. A March 2017 report from the Identity Theft Resource Center indicated that more than 25% of all data breaches were related to health care. The estimated loss to the industry is $5.6 billion per year.

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3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA

Harvard Business

In early May 2017 Republicans in the U.S. Thus, as the population ages, health care services will naturally expand, as will the pressure to find efficient ways to deliver those services. Second, technology has become a pervasive element across the health care system, with a major impact on diagnosis, treatment, and communications.

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