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Healthcare Mergers: An Emerging Crisis | StrategyDriven

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StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. area, a move it describes as “driven largely by health care reform, which demands an integrated regional network.&# Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Johns Hopkins is not alone. .&#

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How the U.S. Army Personalized Its Mental Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Army’s efforts to come to grips with a dramatic upsurge in war-related behavioral conditions over the past 13 years holds valuable lessons for bringing precision mental health care to the civilian world. Between 2007 and 2011, more than $2.5 Innovating for Value in Health Care. million to 3.3 Insight Center.

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The Harvard Contest That’s Trying to Improve Health Care Delivery

Harvard Business Review

In the fall of 2014, the HBS-HMS Forum on Health Care Innovation launched the inaugural Health Acceleration Challenge — a “scale up” competition that focuses on compelling solutions to problems in health care delivery that have already been implemented at a small scale and have the potential for wider dissemination.

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Patient-Reported Data Can Help People Make Better Health Care Choices

Harvard Business Review

In health care, value accrues to patients, insurers, and society at large. ” But most patients don’t embark on a health care experience with a thorough understanding of available treatment options and their anticipated health outcomes. Similarly, U.S. Toward that end, several steps must be taken.

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Health Care for 1% of the Cost

Harvard Business Review

the approach is to spend more money on major technological advances and come up with innovative products and solutions. One of his technological breakthroughs was to make artificial legs from recycled plastic yogurt bottles. So, Dr. Jivacate innovated highly-efficient mobile clinics and 27 satellite workshops in local areas.

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An Alternative to Health Care M&A

Harvard Business Review

One of the main justifications for the mergers and acquisitions sweeping the health care industry is greater integration between the physicians and teams that care for patients. In 2011 Mayo elected to follow this course. We chose to support independent medical centers by creating the Mayo Clinic Care Network.

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How New Technologies Push Us Toward the Past

Harvard Business Review

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. In order to efficiently exchange the information necessary to buy and sell goods, produce things of value, learn, or be entertained, people had to gather in physical places.