Strategy essentials

Strategy is the essential starting point of any venture. One essential reason why many healthcare ventures fail is the lack of a clear, implementable and tangible strategy. Change management, competitiveness, value addition, profitablity are all essential parts of strategy-making.

Presenting an article from Harvard Business Review on " Strategy Essentials."

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/strategy_essentials_you_ignore.html

( Copyright- Harvard Business Review; Author- Joan Magretta , senior associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School)

The Care Management Continuum

Care management is slowly moving out of the classical frame of hospitals. We see the advent of primary healthcare providers, home care , telemedicine and telephonic consults, hospice-based care today.

These developments are yet at a nascent stage in our country. Presenting the view from the US Healthcare System on the " Care Management Imperative."

Some of these issues ( such as the cost rationalization opportunities, Table 1) are relevant to our country also, as we face the unique challenge of developing advanced healthcare systems, at an affordable cost, in a developing economy:

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/the-care-management-imperative.html

( Copyright: Becker's Hospital Review)

Written by Patricia Hines, PhD., RN, The Camden Group, Michael Randall, MHA, Advocate Health, Graham Brown, MPH, CRC, The Camden Group December 16, 2011