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Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes

Harvard Business

It includes social factors (employment, family and social support, income, education), behaviors (diet and exercise, tobacco, alcohol and drugs, sexual activity), and the physical environment (housing, air and water quality, transportation). These barriers could not be addressed with FFS.

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How Volvo Reinvented Itself Through Hiring

Harvard Business

Under new ownership (Volvo was sold to China’s Geely by Ford in 2010), the Swedish automaker decided to transform its product line by becoming a premium player. The company sold 571,000 cars last year, up from 373,000 in 2010. ” Financial signs are certainly pointed in the right direction.

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