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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees

Harvard Business

It is little surprise that direct employer-purchasing of bundled care is a burgeoning area of healthcare payment innovation. Purchasers of healthcare services encounter widely disparate charges across different healthcare delivery systems for equivalent surgical procedures, varying by up to 40%.

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How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change

Harvard Business

In healthcare, change is even harder than in most industries. Yet, a variety of financial and operational problems impeded success and we lacked a clear strategic path toward building the kind of coordinated care delivery system healthcare desperately needs. Together we developed an agenda for change and put it into action.

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Why This Health System Offers Refunds to Dissatisfied Patients

Harvard Business

In November 2015 Geisinger Health System launched its ProvenExperience program – a wide-ranging cultural and process reengineering initiative whose long-term goal is not just to assure the best customer experience in healthcare, but to offer the best customer experience of any industry.

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A Simple Way to Involve Frontline Clinicians in Managing Costs

Harvard Business

To date, only small steps have been taken at most health care systems (for example, clarifying the costs of specific tests during the test-ordering process), and new clinical analytics systems that offer better insights into costs and efficiency often aren’t integrated into day-to-day clinical care. The visual management board.

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Subscription Business Models Are Great for Some Businesses and Terrible for Others

Harvard Business

Or you can join a premium community for advice, guidance, and connections with like-minded people on topics ranging from healthcare to entrepreneurship to art lessons. Identify the right metrics. In the digital membership economy, the metrics best apt to indicate success are more likely to be around member churn and engagement.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

Company cultures centered on efficiency thinking have flooded the marketplace with low-cost, widely available products and resulted in tremendous waste and social issues (Brown, 2009). A quick walk through a parking lot looking at the similarity of cars reveals a need for organizations to move beyond making incremental improvements.

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Fighting Chronic Disease Starts with Better Pediatric Care

Harvard Business

As a large team cares for patients, clear and efficient pathways for communication and workflows are necessary to ensure the patient experience is as seamless and organized as possible. Still, these metrics have yet to include broader measures of wellness such as academic achievement, involvement in crime, or job outcomes (i.e.,

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