Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

New predictive analytics tools promise to reduce waste and improve care by forecasting the likelihood of an event — for example, a patient being readmitted to a hospital or developing a life-threatening infection — and allowing providers to tailor treatments and services accordingly. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. For example, it took nearly a year to design, build, and implement ABIe. And they are finding the tools increasingly useful, of course, in dealing with online customers.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

They also do not represent sustainable, long-term change. Here are some examples of what will be required to change the operating culture: Contract rationalization. Patients need to flow through them efficiently or the hospital loses money, often in large amounts.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Soldiers like efficiency and order. By background they are normally Information Technology or Chemistry teachers (95% in our study), who have often moved out of the classroom to manage support staff early in their career. For example, both Accountants and Architects also acquire a primary school early on.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 19, 2018

A lot of money has been spent on information technology in health care with little to show for it. Examples of these systems include electronic alerts for medication interactions and reminders to ensure all steps in the care process for the pneumonia patient are followed. ilbusca/Getty Images. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

health system, change management is an essential skill for public and private leaders alike. For these leaders — and young people aspiring to careers as health care managers — one very practical question emerges: What are the critical skills for leading major change in our health system?

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