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Health Care Providers Need a Value Management Office

Harvard Business Review

While leaders of many care organizations may be fearful that a new centralized staff function would add to corporate overhead and bureaucracy at a time when they are trying to reduce expenses, becoming adept at the delivery of value-based care requires capabilities that provider organizations currently lack.

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How Hospitals Are Using Patient-Reported Outcomes to Improve Care

Harvard Business Review

Dr. Niazi’s team has used Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to prove that this program is cost effective, and is currently collecting data to assess its impact on patient outcomes. Several features of the program have already been expanded to other providers at Mayo.

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Lessons from Mayo Clinic’s Redesign of Stroke Care

Harvard Business Review

Facing escalating costs of medications and technology, health care patients and providers in the United States continue to search for opportunities to reduce overall costs while maintaining and improving health care outcomes. David Pereiras/Getty Images.

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