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3 Major Forces Disrupting and Transforming the Professional Services Landscape

Progressus

You know, those same disruptive forces redefining all sectors from manufacturing and retail to healthcare and tech. IT, the C-suite, middle-managers, and front-line workers must all work together as a coordinated unit — under one strategy, language, and data ecosystem that ensures individual contributions support the big-picture game plan.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business

A core challenge of management is to ensure that the organization’s priorities, strategies, and metrics are consistently embraced and that any impediments are identified and addressed quickly. Metrics that are reported daily, such as “units at capacity.” CAPTION TEXT HERE/Getty Images.

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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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Using AI to Improve Electronic Health Records

Harvard Business

Electronic health record systems for large, integrated healthcare delivery networks today are often viewed as monolithic, inflexible, difficult to use and costly to configure. splain2me/Getty Images. The most popular systems are often built around older underlying technologies, and it often shows in their ease of use.

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4 Steps to Sustaining Improvement in Health Care

Harvard Business

These high-performing health systems offered a key insight: To sustain change, you need a strong strategy for engaging and standardizing the work of frontline managers. Most organizations standardize work for managers by testing it on a small scale in one pilot unit. Standardizing work processes is a concept from lean management.).

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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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Getting Doctors to Make Better Decisions Will Take More than Money and Nudges

Harvard Business

So healthcare leaders have long wondered: what’s the best way to change clinicians’ behavior and improve their quality and efficiency of care? Relying too heavily on financial incentives to boost performance can often lead to gaming of metrics (e.g., What the Research Says.