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

Harvard Business

It includes social factors (employment, family and social support, income, education), behaviors (diet and exercise, tobacco, alcohol and drugs, sexual activity), and the physical environment (housing, air and water quality, transportation). Most health systems will need to manage a multitude of reimbursement methodologies.

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Higher Wages Aren’t Enough to Turn Mediocre Jobs into Good Ones

Harvard Business

Higher wages are also necessary for many companies that are stuck in a vicious cycle of bad jobs, bad operations, bad customer service, low productivity, and high costs. Employees who are not empowered to improve their work or solve customer problems. So, we applaud Amazon’s decision and hope others will do the same.

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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. I’m not a strict operator. So, I’m not a strict engineer.