Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2018

Now we need to give doctors a chance at engaging in the conversation by developing tools to make cost transparent to them. For the past five years, University of Utah Health has been working on a tool that does just that. The tool uses this data to calculate and integrate cost information with relevant quality and outcome measures.

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Operations Data Tools Metrics 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2018

There are findings that point to positive gains in both cost savings and productivity measures, while other studies, including the recent report from the National Bureau of Economic Research, find that programs can make for good recruitment tools but won’t do much to lower costs or improve health.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 17, 2018

The coach would quickly assemble a team of four to six people and, using tools from their training, create a simple workshop to address the problem. We put €50,000 behind 28 of them and by early 2018 we had three pilots: a new business model in animal healthcare, a digital solution for clinical operations, and a gamified education app.

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Company Agile Training Training 35

Management Consulted

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Mechanical Engineering is the most operationally focused, in contrast to say Civil Engineering, where you are more focused on ideas such as land use instead of metrics and modeling. Brushing up on your math skills (or at least Excel or other analytical tools) is a must to land that internship you want between your junior and senior years.

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Consulting Engineering Finance Case Interview 100

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Which technology tools will meet the demographic, clinical, and business needs for these services? In addition to telehealth services offered directly to patients, we use virtual tools to improve care and communication among our providers. We are at the cusp of this transition. E-Consults: Broadening the Reach of Specialty Care.

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Healthcare Video Efficiency Consulting 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Doctors are working harder than ever and spending more of their time documenting clinical metrics and measuring patient satisfaction. The extent to which physicians have: (1) the decision-making latitude they need to provide high-quality care and (2) the necessary tools and resources.

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Survey Leadership Productivity Groups 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

They are having to spend more time on documentation, see more patients in a day, and use unfamiliar processes and tools. Data and metrics can create an awareness of problems, a means to explore them, and a goal post to measure progress. Alignment of common values enabled and motivated them to work through this change adoption together.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 16, 2017

At monthly review and analysis meetings, clinic chiefs and the Army service-line-management team discuss selected metrics and ways to improve performance. These meetings also provide opportunities for clinic chiefs to discuss errors in data and the limits of the underlying tools.

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System Data Meeting Report 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2018

Imagining the same ad for a healthcare provider in 2018, even an innovative provider, is a stretch. This isn’t just about building fancy new websites, but undertaking true care redesign: becoming adept at delivering high-quality, cost-effective virtual care through telehealth and digital tools. Insight Center. Sponsored by Optum.

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Retail Strategy Strategy Strategy& 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The potential for improving the quality of healthcare has never been greater. Healthcare professionals often see the patient experience through the lens of their own expertise. In order to bridge the gap between what patients need and what the system offers, healthcare professionals must begin by setting their expertise aside.

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System Healthcare Methodologies Metrics 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 8, 2016

Of course, there are still many efforts to further improve surgical technology, including the use of 3D imaging and higher-resolution cameras to improve laparoscopic tools, or employing surgical robots to enable more precise procedures.

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Operations Research System Culture 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2017

While there have been significant strides in providing frontline clinicians with quality information, these clinicians still lack the tools they need to play an active role in controlling the costs of the care they provide. The following tools constitute the basic building blocks of the value-management system. The box score.

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Management System Data Tools 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 1, 2018

More recently, a study compared the commonly used crime risk analysis tool COMPAS against recidivism predictions from 400 untrained workers recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk. Combine traditional machine learning metrics with fairness measures.

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Data Training Training Metrics 32

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 17, 2017

PFK tracks data across all the more than 20 AHRQ Pediatric Quality Indicators , as well as metrics on utilization , which has led to improved quality of care and cost savings among its Medicaid population of children. These tools must be customized to the population and integrated across the system.

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Metrics Efficiency System Development 32

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Key to its success in rural care delivery is that we can rapidly disseminate common decision-support tools across the entire network. So far, we have rolled out our integrated EMR platform to 45 hospitals and more than 300 clinics.

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Guidelines Enterprise Data System 28

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Recently the Chief HR Officer for a healthcare firm asked us to identify the best new framework for leadership that she could use to train and develop a cadre of high potentials. Gary S Chapman/Getty Images. While taking these actions, Macia also was learning about her own leadership, what worked and what she needed to do differently.

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