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5 steps to boost process efficiency: A guide for businesses up to 100 employees

Asamby Consulting

Process Improvement In business, you need to use resources as efficiently as possible. So you need to make sure that your processes are set up well. This blog post outlines a simple 5-step methodology to improve any process. Repeat After the process improvement is before the process improvement.

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

Harvard Business

Our experience at the Nemours Children’s Health System suggests that value-based care (VBC) is necessary to significantly improve health outcomes and to lower costs for children with chronic illness and complex medical conditions. Most health systems will need to manage a multitude of reimbursement methodologies.

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How Good Companies Become Market Leaders (Without an Infusion of Capital): Interview with Charles Browne

Consulting Matters

After eight years of service, I left and worked at a couple of commercial nuclear power plants and earned a project management certification and a Master Black Belt Lead Sig Sigma process improvement black belt, along with my engineering degree. Okay, now we need a supervisor for the group. So, I’m not a strict engineer.

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

Harvard Business

Other companies including Lowe’s, Walmart, McKesson and JetBlue Airways have recently partnered with the Pacific Business Group on Health (PBGH) and Health Design Plus (HDP) to launch the Employers Centers of Excellence Network (ECEN) which helps employers identify quality providers and negotiate bundled payments.