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Mental & Physical Health Support During a Career Crisis

Harmonious Workplaces

Among the decisions I needed to make which could have profound effects on my career and my family, I found myself torn between what I had prepared to do since I reentered graduate school — management consulting in organizational development and change management — and what I had done as a consultant and executive, MarCom (marketing communications).

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How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change

Harvard Business

Major change also takes a long time to implement — between five and seven years on average — and the performance improvements that are achieved rarely last. In healthcare, change is even harder than in most industries. Together we developed an agenda for change and put it into action.

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

Harvard Business

In addition, we believe that in order to deliver on the promise of improved health and reduced spending, VBC must be augmented with a structured approach to eliminate waste and be delivered in conjunction with a broad-based effort to address factors that are outside of the traditional boundaries of healthcare.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Safety in 10 Minutes a Day

Harvard Business

Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. We conducted interviews with staff members in the hospital, nursing home, and rehabilitation center, and conducted an informal survey after the initial exercise.). Kelly Sillaste/Getty Images.

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How Atrius Health Is Making the Shift from Volume to Value

Harvard Business

For example, through a patient-journey-mapping exercise, the Care in Place team noticed that some of the senior patients being sent to the ER did not need to go. Over the course of the Care in Place project, the team repeatedly met with over 60 different workgroups, leaders, departments, tech vendors, and so on.