Leadership, Strategy, and Innovation: Health Care Collection (8 Items)

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Strategic Implications for Health Care Providers

PROVIDERS, INCLUDING HOSPITALS, clinics, physician groups, and individual physicians, are the central actors in the health care system and the place where most value is actually delivered. Other system participants—whether they are health plans, employers, suppliers, government, or patients themselves—can reinforce or detract from this value through their roles and choices. Ultimately, however, it is how medicine is practiced, and the way patients are cared for, that will determine the success or failure of the health care system.

Today, the strategies, organizational structures, and operating practices of many health care providers are misaligned with value, as revealed in the staggering array ...