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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists. Eliminating layers of management. cancel or rebid them).

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business

The center’s director, Brian Bartholomeusz, told her that technology like hers was exactly the kind of technology he was trying to transfer out of the lab, and he encouraged her to apply for a grant. All of our early funding came from either nonprofit or government sources.”

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

Toyota hired Deming to train hundreds of the company’s managers, eventually capitalizing on his expertise to develop the famous Toyota Production System — the primary source of today’s “lean” thinking. Shewhart taught this iterative and incremental-development methodology to his mentee, W.

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How AI Could Help Doctors Reduce Maternal Mortality

Harvard Business

Sixty percent of maternal deaths in the United States are preventable.

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3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA

Harvard Business

More than 3,000 apps are now available to help manage diabetes alone. But technology has become rooted firmly in U.S. Indeed, the profusion of new treatments may present a serious challenge to the current payer strategy of negotiating favorable pricing with drug and device companies.

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We Interviewed Health Care Leaders About Their Industry, and They’re Worried

Harvard Business

The consensus is the challenges facing them will be daunting and organizations will be strained to finance and manage it. The transformation will necessitate substantial investments in finance, technology, human capital, operations, and infrastructure, and a substantial disinvestment of legacy resources in these areas.