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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business

Employers and insurance companies — not end consumers — call the shots on what kind of care they will pay for. One big incumbent that has become more receptive to disruptive innovation is the insurance giant Humana. These astronomical costs are largely due to the way competition works in American health care.

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A Tool for Balancing Your Company’s Digital Investments

Harvard Business

This situation exists because, believe it or not, a lot of organizations lack any mechanisms to help them actively manage the evaluation, selection, monitoring, and adjustment of digital investments to achieve clearly defined business results while meeting clear risk and return expectations.

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

Harvard Business

HDP is a third-party administrator with expertise in the development and management of travel surgery programs, providing strategic and operational management of this program. Fewer than 5% of healthcare systems initially identified for participation in ECEN meet all of the quality requirements for consideration.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

While I was working with them, the focus of my PhD gradually shifted toward how economic integration and various factors (domestic, international, political, economic) have impacted Japanese companies’ corporate strategy and operations over the past couple of decades. ’ As you may guess, I enjoyed my work in Asia and learned a lot.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Today AWS accounts for just 10% of Amazon’s $150 billion in revenue, but generates close to $1 billion in quarterly operating profit. “The CEO’s responsibility is to create a stark reality of what the future holds,” says Bertolini, “and then to build the plans for the organization to meet those realities.”

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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones

Epicflow

Eli’s innovative approaches and insights continue inspiring professionals and organizations worldwide to achieve operational excellence. Having Insurance (Risk Buffer). Be it health, car, or home insurance; the idea is to have a buffer against unexpected damage or health issues. This is the “integration effect.”

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Substitute Doctors Are Becoming More Common. What Do We Know About Their Quality of Care?

Harvard Business

Our Methodology We used data from Medicare billing claims to identify all Medicare beneficiaries with a general medical condition who were hospitalized and treated by locum tenens and non-locum tenens physicians. Our study was recently published in JAMA. The Rise of Locum Tenens.

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