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Wearable Technology in Healthcare

Tom Spencer

6 Despite this, insurers and employers are taking advantage of a provision in the Affordable Care Act that allows employers to offer financial incentives, paid for by the insurance companies, if employees agree to wear a fitness tracker. The idea is to incentivize real time patient monitoring that can produce data for the clinician.

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Should a CEO’s Bonus Be Based on Financial Performance Alone?

Harvard Business

According to its annual report, those include financial metrics such as “attributable profit; underlying EBIT (earnings before interest and taxation); and total shareholder return (share price and dividends which are assumed to be reinvested).”

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The CMS Five-Star Quality Rating System is Changing. Here’s How to Stay on Top

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is raising the stakes on patient and member experience for health insurance organizations. Plans that are awarded four or more stars earn a 5% bonus on CMS payment benchmarks, as well as higher rebates which are used to provide better member benefits. What’s new.

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What the Companies on the Right Side of the Digital Business Divide Have in Common

Harvard Business

This difference in strategy means that business users are more likely to have access to a consistent set of up-to-date metrics for decision making, and the organization can generate predictions about their business from data they collect. Insurers can use this data to better understand their customers and to price policies accordingly.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.