The numbers are in, and they're abysmal.
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Leadership in healthcare, like in any other business, is a race, and everyone is jockeying for a better position.
But the thing about positions - even in the C-suite - is that anyone can have them. And if you're not constantly speeding ahead, you might get passed up by someone who is.
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You might recognize some of the problems in this week's five articles, and you'll definitely recognize that the solutions will have to be pretty big.
See what surprising lessons you can learn from Walmart, Homeland Security, and - inevitably - Shark Tank.
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What happens when the biggest player in a league decides to play a different sport altogether?
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It's easy - in a field dominated by endless spreadsheets of sterile equipment used in impersonal procedures - to lose sight of what healthcare is all about. People. We could all be doing what we do in any industry, if it weren't for that all-important human factor. Sometimes we forget to care.
So here are a couple of items that we ran across recently that reminded us.
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Big changes continue take place in the industry at a breakneck pace. Updates are continuing to trickle in from the Amazon announcement as their intentions and potential benefits become more clear. In addition, the announcement continues to have ripple effects in the context of mergers and moves to keep up with. We are tracking it all for you! Here are our "Five To Save" articles:
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The healthcare supply chain is facing an unprecedented amount of disruption due to new players, new technologies, and... hurricanes? We are tracking it all for you! Here are our "Five to Save" articles for the first half of February:
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It finally happened. Amazon has made its intentions known by jumping into healthcare with some big-name partners. Read to find out more!
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