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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Cost reduction requires an honest and thorough reassessment of everything the health system does and ultimately, a change in the organization’s operating culture. In some larger nonprofit hospitals, there may be six.

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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

Borrowing many of the HBR article’s key ideas and filling in specific operational practices, Sutherland created a new way of developing software; honoring the rugby imagery, he dubbed his approach “scrum.” Although they disagreed on much, the group eventually settled on a new name for the movement: agile.

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

Harvard Business

The transformation will necessitate substantial investments in finance, technology, human capital, operations, and infrastructure, and a substantial disinvestment of legacy resources in these areas. Our interviews indicate that care organizations are not yet ready to make such substantive operational changes and resource investments.