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How Mayo Clinic Is Combating Information Overload in Critical Care Units

Harvard Business

How technology is changing the design and delivery of care. We created a multidisciplinary team of clinicians, researchers, and experts in clinical informatics to design and test information-technology tools that can help, rather than hinder, clinical care. It also saves three to five minutes on chart review per patient per day.

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How to Make Sure Good Ideas Don’t Get Lost in the Shuffle

Harvard Business

We’ve studied stereotypically “creative” firms, like design, R&D, and information technology companies, but we’ve also researched stereotypically “uncreative” environments, like Golan’s manufacturing plant at Elop (which is part of Elbit ISTAR). As a result, innovation can stall.

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The Consulting Value Proposition

Tom Spencer

Areas of expertise that a consulting firm might provide include: Industry specific knowledge; Strategy; Marketing; Supply chain optimization; Distribution; Organisational change; Information technology; Tax structuring; Risk management; Human resources; and. Turnarounds. Cost Effective Solution. For some types of projects (e.g.

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

Harvard Business

So during initial rollout from May 2012 through February 2014, we examined 80,000 BHDP surveys in four military-treatment facilities. Practice managers can more efficiently and effectively use their providers to meet the needs of their patient base.

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The Critical Skills for Leading Major Change in America’s Health System

Harvard Business

The first concerns the challenge of creating the meaningful use program for the HITECH Act when I served as national coordinator of health information technology from 2009 to 2011, at the beginning of the Obama administration. Two personal stories illustrate these points.

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4 Steps to Improving Your Strategic Thinking Passion and Proficiency

Organizational Talent Consulting

Even though I had earned my MBA, I wasn't an efficient reader or writer. Information Technology & People (West Linn, Or.), I battled self-limiting beliefs, which required every ounce of determination and perseverance to keep at it. I didn't like it. We don't stay the same. So what is your real strategic thinking challenge?

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Keynes Is Dead, Abenomics Fizzles, US Fails to Reach Escape Velocity, Stimulus Fatigue

MishTalk

Economist Andy Xie has an interesting article in CaixinOnline that contains his views on 2014. The global economy is unlikely to accelerate in 2014. Abenomics is likely to fizzle out in 2014. Today''s information technology allows a multinational company to position research, marketing, finance and managerial jobs to anywhere.