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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. Eliminating layers of management. One thing that distinguishes the typical nonprofit from a comparably-sized investor-owned hospital is the number of layers of management. PM Images/Getty Images. As the U.S.

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4 Steps to Improving Your Strategic Thinking Passion and Proficiency

Organizational Talent Consulting

Even though I had earned my MBA, I wasn't an efficient reader or writer. Or is your paradigm that it is best to avoid strategic thinking because you need to manage your image, and things will change anyway? Information Technology & People (West Linn, Or.), Journal of Property Management, 73 (5), 13. Bartell, R.

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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. Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Civil Rights.

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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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