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

Harvard Business

However, transitioning to a VBC approach involves added infrastructure, training costs, and complexity of delivering care in an environment that mixes fee-for-service and value-based reimbursement. Passage of the Affordable Care Act, in 2010, signaled the advent of VBC and an emphasis on population care.

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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business

Since its founding in 2010, Iora has attracted more than $123 million in funding and now operates 37 practices serving 40,000 patients in 11 states. Iora trains health coaches to become the consumer’s advocate, acting as the quarterback of an extended care team that includes a physician.

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Use Design Thinking to Build Commitment to a New Idea

Harvard Business

Our training and experience tell us logically that ideas without data can’t reach our standard of proof, and proof is the prompt for emotional comfort. We are biased, then, against new ideas – based on the way we have been trained to see the world. No wonder so many new ideas are dismissed out of hand.

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Systems View: A Social-Technical Perspective | Consulting and.

Consulting and Organizational Management

Systems View: A Social-Technical Perspective By Jim Smith on August 16, 2010. Think of technology in the broadest sense: Technology=Methodology. Accounting methodology, and its structure of rules, is no less a technology than an integrated production line. Training and Development. Library Blogs Home. This Blogs Home.

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The Mindset That Wins Consulting Work With Fortune 500 Companies with Mindy Millward: Podcast #24

Consulting Success

I said, “Do you mean the proposal I wrote in 2010?” We’ve invested a fair amount of time getting to know each other and getting aligned around methodology and how we think about clients. We’ve brought people in and it was a train wreck, not because they were bad people or bad consultants. This was 2014.