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Organizational Restructuring- Meaning, Reasons, Types & More

Vantage Circle

In most cases, it can result in either downsizing or upsizing employees, changes in staffing requirements, etc. For example, during COVID-19 , the tourism and hospitality sectors are two of the worst-hit industries. In some cases, these changes may require a restructuring for a large scale organization.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

In today’s health care landscape, consultants often advise independent hospitals to merge with a larger health system. The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology.

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How a U.S. Health Care System Uses 15-Minute Huddles to Keep 23 Hospitals Aligned

Harvard Business Review

At Salt Lake City-based Intermountain Healthcare , ensuring the alignment of all these things to provide extraordinary care requires a constant regimented focus across our 23 hospitals, 170 clinics, and 850,000-member health insurance plan. To achieve that, we have implemented a model of daily huddles on an extensive scale.

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How European Health Care Providers Are Engaging Doctors with New Technologies

Harvard Business Review

Physician discontent over deteriorating working conditions and growing risks to patient care has risen to alarming levels in European hospitals. The findings are based on input from 1,156 physicians across nine specialties and 154 hospital procurement administrators in Germany, France, the UK, and Italy.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. Contracted services account for significant fractions of all hospitals’ operating expenses. In some larger nonprofit hospitals, there may be six. Roughly two-thirds of all hospitals are part of these systems.

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How Machine Learning Is Helping Us Predict Heart Disease and Diabetes

Harvard Business Review

health care system, a new wave of analytics and technology could help dramatically cut costly and unnecessary hospitalizations while improving outcomes for patients. This will give care providers the chance to intervene much earlier and head off hospitalizations. Based on a study of a year’s worth of hospital admissions, the U.S.

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How U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems Can Reverse Their Sliding Financial Performance

Harvard Business Review

Since the beginning of 2016, the financial performance of hospitals and health systems in the United States has significantly worsened. To be financially sustainable, hospitals and health systems must revamp their strategies and insist that their investments in new payment models and physician employees generate solid returns.