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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

Here are some examples of what will be required to change the operating culture: Contract rationalization. The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. They also do not represent sustainable, long-term change.

System 37
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Empowering Digital Societies - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business

Building more efficient, secure, and resilient governments. Turn to Estonia for an example of a digital transformation of the social infrastructure. Today, new devices coupled with artificial intelligence using vast amounts of data from millions of sensors are helping us tackle key social concerns. Estonia has only 1.3

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. Two personal stories illustrate these points.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business

These must qualify as “specialty occupations,” which typically require a bachelor’s degree (or the equivalent) and are found in fields such as science, engineering, information technology, medicine, and business. For example, Axios reported that 72.4% Is There a Shortage of Technical Skills in the U.S.?