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Human-Centered Leadership | Renee Moorefield

Peter Winick

And, you know, there might be different nuances of working with a high-tech crowd that a food services crowd, a no hospitality situation, etc. And then when things started to turn, return to normal or semi-normal or whatever, they tried to move that as much as they could to a variable cost instead of bringing back the bench.

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A Simple Way to Involve Frontline Clinicians in Managing Costs

Harvard Business Review

The approach was pilot tested in two successive stages over a one-year period at Raigmore Hospital, the largest hospital in the Highlands region of Scotland. Financial measures report variable costs broken out by a few major categories (including supplies, drugs, and staff) along with revenue and margin measures.

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Selling Products Is Good. Selling Projects Can Be Even Better

Harvard Business Review

In similar long-term partnerships with Philips, hospitals have been able to significantly improve radiology volumes and cut MRI waiting times in half. It is easier to price a product, for which most of the fixed and variable costs are known, than a project, which is influenced by many external factors. Pricing model.

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A Refresher on Economic Value to the Customer

Harvard Business Review

By comparing the costs to the hospital of dealing with the negative outcomes to the positive benefits of using the drug, Medicines Co can decide which type of patient to target (it turns out that Angiomax has a very high EVC for high-risk patients) and a lower EVC for low-risk ones) and how to price the drug to the hospitals.

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It’s Time for Episode-Based Health Care Spending

Harvard Business Review

There is widespread agreement that if the United States is to achieve sustainable levels of health care spending, it must make greater use of payment mechanisms that reward physicians, hospitals, and health systems for the results achieved. decisions about device selection, diagnostics use, discharge planning, hospital admission).